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Photography in the Raw
The humbling exhibition “Photo Brut” brings together generations of self-taught artists who appropriate photographs or create their own.
The Japanese artist Ichiwo Sugino achieves his impersonations in “Photo Brut” mostly with adhesive tape and posts them on his Instagram account. Subjects include cultural figures from Thomas Edison to Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese and Andy Warhol.Credit.Ichiwo Sugino
Feb. 4, 2021
It’s great that the American Folk Art Museum doesn’t charge admission these days. More than one visit may be needed to absorb its landmark exhibition “Photo Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie.”
This jaw-dropping, sometimes heart-rending show a larger version of which was seen at a photography festival in Arles, France, last summer is a cornucopia of established and unfamiliar names, from the celebrated Henry Darger to the all-but-unknown Ichiwo Sugino; improvised mediums and often painful stories of isolated l
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