Archives For Art
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), April 4-7, 2013.
PARK AVENUE ARMORY | 643 PARK AVENUE | NEW YORK, NY 10065
The great artist Jean Dubuffet was very influenced by Outsider Art and characterized it as: “Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere”.
Local Philly artist Jill Bonovitz and husband Sheldon have been collecting Outsider Art way before it was popular. Once upon a time you needed a dinner invitation to view l’art brut but now they have shared their incredible collection with the entire world at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. If you visit Philly to see this show make sure you stop by the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery which has been specializing in this type of work since 1952.
“Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection. March 3, 2013 – June 9, 2013
Ruth uses a pin hole camera to make these incredible and surreal images as 4×5″ silver prints. There are few living masters practicing surrealism in photography and she is one of the best. You can still get her book here but its getting very rare.
Everything I make is a Picture of a Picture in some respect. Pictures of Pictures have always interested me. They are a little bit like a room of mirrors in how they operate. Letinsky has long done a cool and calculated type of still life of mostly food and objects in white rooms the best ones being when she introduces subtle shifts in the color of her lighting.
In this series she changes her game and photographs cut out images of magazines in her minimalist style. With this academic body of work she is a bit more like a postmodern Vermeer with a camera. Want to see more artists who use mass media images in their work? It all started with Andy Warhol and the legions of artists that followed in his footsteps.
Laura Letinsky Ill Form and Void Full 18 Jan – 7 April 2013
