Installation view of Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning On view at Shin Gallery, curated by Scott Ogden as part of the Outsider Art Fair 2021 Photo: Olya Vysotskaya
A trickle of intrepid visitors made their way through the various venues of the Outsider Art Fair in New York on its VIP preview day yesterday. In addition to online viewing rooms, this year’s edition of the cult fair is taking place across four galleries in Manhattan, as well as the legendary Electric Lady recording studio, with two solo exhibitions and five broadly themed group exhibitions.
“It would have been easy to roll over and do just the OVRs but we’re scrappy, we’re sort of the renegade fair,” says Andrew Edlin, the fair’s owner, who is hosting one of the group exhibitions in his gallery and notes that the in-person exhibitions offered another low-cost opportunity for participating galleries. “The fair exists for our dealers and we want them to stay in the game until this a
The 29th Outsider Art Fair Now Open In Four NYC Galleries And Electric Lady Studios View all 35
Art fair season is upon us once again, but like everything else in the pandemic era, it s all going to be very different this time around. Starting things off is the Outsider Art Fair, which for nearly 30 years has been one of the world s preeminent showcases of self-taught artists, which basically just means anyone who makes art without any formal education, without following any particular movement or set of rules, and often without any financial motive or presumption that their work might be sold.
FROM the Gympie Regional Gallery straight to Manhattan, Gympie artist Danny Bickmore is reaching new heights as one of several artists chosen worldwide to exhibit in the New York Outsider Art Fair.
The visual artist has been a major contributor to Gympie’s art scene for more than two decades as part of Gympie gallery’s Community Futures Project that supports artists with significant challenges and disabilities. Danny Bickmore s creating a piece featuring emus in the outback. Photo: supplied
Represented by Cathy Condon Gallery, Danny’s work will feature in the premier exhibition that launches this week.
Dedicated to self-taught art, art brut and outsider art from around the globe, the 29th edition of the fair launches today for 10 days and will include a hybrid of online and in-person components, featuring seven exhibitions across five galleries in Manhattan.