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Style: Outsider Art
Abstract Expressionist CoBRA Style Fantastical Figure. Acrylic on Card.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist CoBrA style acrylic on card of a humanised figure attributed to French artist, A Nuchy. The work is signed bottom right and stamped with the Atelier stamp to t...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard, Watercolor
$398 Sale Price
26% Off
Rider, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jaime Ellsworth depicts a sturdy white stallion with its face out of frame. A girl with a red skirt—also obscured from perspective—stands on its ba...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Oil
Amble, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A solitary horse stands prominently against a cream-colored background. Created with multiple layers of oil paint, the artwork boasts a unique texture, reveal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Oil
ADVENTURE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas.
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Dachshunds and Hearts, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints a portrait of a charming pair of long-bodied dogs. She draws inspiration from the jolly pet daschunds of her friend. Jessica's...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Whisky Dance III (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Whisky Dance III (Sidewinder), 2005
20x24cm, Edition 1/10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # 3207,
not mounted
Stefanie S...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Music, Rock and Roll)
By Kerry Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Mixed Media on Crescent board
Year: 2022
Size: 21x22in
Framed
Signed, dated by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1622
*Black frame with a mirror...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board
Naïve Figurative Nude Painting Lucy Boom, Framed Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Lucy Boom is a framed naïve-style painting by Inés Silvalde, created in 2018 as part of her Influencers de Taberna series. The piece presents a red-haired, wide-eyed figure pointing ...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas
Sparrows, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Sparrows take flight and glide with the breeze. As they move in different directions, their angular forms overlap in an organic pattern. Bold black outlines con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Oil
Palomino, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A brown horse with a white tail and mane dips its nose into a black bag dangling from its head. The name Palomino appears above, hinting at a story. Layers of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (also known as "1811 THE BACKWOODSMAN'S CHRISTMAS")
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (also known as "1811 THE BACKWOODSMAN'S CHRISTMAS")
Oil on canvas, c. 1875-1925
Unsigned
Provenance: Found in Ohio
A charming American naive nocturn of a hunter and his two ...
Category
1870s Outsider Art
Materials
Oil
Pony Express, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A black horse with white spots gallops with all its might, following the outlined route in the background. The painting carries a whimsical tone with its colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
MORNING BREAKFAST Mixed Media Collage, Abstract Black Family Collage with Paint
Located in Union City, NJ
MORNING BREAKFAST is an original mixed media collage on board by Brooklyn artist Karl A. McIntosh. MORNING BREAKFAST is a somewhat amusing, colorful abstract portrait portraying a black family seated together having breakfast. McIntosh shows his inventive use of collage using cut bits of colored paper in shades of red, brown, blue, pink, black. Visible are magazine print clippings for facial details, dishes, lettering layered with wildly expressive yellow, blue, green and white painted accents that create an energetic and rambunctious breakfast table scene. The viewer can't help but continue gazing at the frenzied movement and visual chatter going on in MORNING BREAKFAST, a captivating and irresistible painted collage by Karl A. McIntosh.
Framed size - 27.25 in. x 33.5 in.
Image size - 221.25 in. x 27.5 in.
Excellent condition, archival framing, beveled cherry wood colored frame with green and gold liner, hand signed by the artist "K.A.McIntosh" on upper left edge.
About the artist:
Karl A. McIntosh is a self taught artist who works is pastel, watercolor, acrylic, stone, wood and metal and is a known for his imaginative transformation of found objects into works of art. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, McIntosh moved to the United States at an early age and later took up art. Among his mentors are artist Otto Neals with whom he worked at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Working Workshop and artist Marian Griffin. McIntosh is also a poet, drummer and dancer who draws his creative inspiration and expression from his study of African art and culture.
McIntosh’s bold, bright colors dance off the page and tantalize the senses. His work is profound in its statement and deliciously whimsical. His work is an honest portrayal of everyday life and the people who live it but on occasion, takes on public figures and world events most often employing satire as thick as the layers of paint or paper he uses to depict them.
McIntosh’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues across the country including Dorsey’s Art Gallery, The Skylight Gallery, MOCADA (The Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art), 843 Studio Gallery, The National Black Fine Art...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Paint, Pencil, Board, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Glue, Paper
Sunrise in Kauai, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
On a trip to Kauai, Hawaii, artist Kira Yusak found inspiration watching the sunrise each morning during her beach strolls. She noticed the colors, clouds, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
MILKY WAY
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas.
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled 6 - Animals in the Light
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Foam Board, Felt Pen
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Leaving Home (97-301), 5 color lithograph on Rives BFK paper, Signed/N Tamarind
Located in New York, NY
DeLoss McGraw
Leaving Home (97-301), 1997
Five color lithograph on tan Rives BFK paper with deckled edges
Signed and numbered 3/75 in graphite pencil on the front
17 × 24 3/25 inches...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 2 - Abstract Squares on Red Background
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Foam Board, Felt Pen
$375 Sale Price
25% Off
Classic, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Sharon Sieben paints a gestural portrait of a nude woman gracefully undressing her white robe. The figure strikes a classic pose as she contemplates a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Oil
Un Rassemblement - Figurative Drawing
By Milo Quam
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully provocative sketch drawing of a gathering of men and women in pencil by outsider artist Mylo Quam (American, 1941-1996). Signed lower right. Presented in giltwood frame with black mat under glass. Image size: 8.25"H x 10.50"W.
A long-time Woodstock area resident, Mylo Quam was a self-taught painter and draughtsman whose provocative figural work has been compared to Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as to twentieth-century artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Quam was an avid reader who derived inspiration from such varied arenas as Shakespeare, the occult, the Bible, Eastern and Western mythology, politics, and popular culture. "I look at everything," the artist was quoted as saying in 1990. "I read the comic pages. Anything visual. There's very little I don't think is a subject for art."
Born in North Dakota, Quam studied Greek language and other classical subjects at Brandeis, Boston, and New York Universities, and worked as a translator of Greek plays while just 17 years old. After a successful career as an actor that included numerous Off-Broadway performances and a leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of Royal Hunt of the Sun, Quam turned his focus to painting.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Boatman Gallery, NYC in 1969 and was followed by twenty solo shows over the course of his career at venues including Gallery A, Flynn Gallery, CFM Gallery, Brewster Gallery, Imperial Gallery, Runyon Winchell Gallery and the Gallery of Erotic Art, all in New York City.
Quam's work was also exhibited at the John Pense Gallery in San Francisco, the Clark-Whitney Gallery in Massachusetts, the Barrett House and Desmond Weiss Galleries in Poughkeepsie, and for many years at the Ann Leonard Gallery in Woodstock.
Quam's paintings were exhibited internationally, as well, notably in a solo exhibition in Haiti-- the first by an American artist in that country. In addition, he was one of four artists to represent the United States in La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia of 1986. As a young man, Quam designed sets and/or costumes for the Actor's Playhouse in New York City, the Lucas Hovig Ballet Company, and the Opera Municipal de Marseilles, France. He also created illustrations for The Story of O...
Category
1970s Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
untitled (Returning Home with Supplies)
By Gustav Hagermann
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Returning Home with Supplies)
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right (see photo)
Signed by his printer, Otto Felsing lower left ((see photo)
Annotated in pencil: "In kupfer geschnitten von einen Lapplander"
Printed by Otto Felsing, one of Germany's master printers of the era
One of several engravings Hagemann made based upon actual drawings given to him by Laplanders.
Gustav Hagemann was born on February 17, 1891, in Engelnstedt, Salzgitter, Germany. Hagemann attended high school in Wolfenbüttel and studied at the art school, in Kassel, Germany. After graduating as an art teacher, he became a trainee teacher in Torgau in Saxony.
He fought in the First World War between 1914-1918. After the war he studied art from 1920...
Category
1930s Outsider Art
Materials
Drypoint
"Untitled" by Steven H. Rehfeld - Blue, Orange, and Earth Tone Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954)
"Untitled" 1992
Oil Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
"Untitled" by Steven H...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Spalted Beech 643
By Philip Moulthrop
Located in Phoenix, AZ
turned wood
"I think of my wood turning as a way to reveal the beauty and texture found in the wood. The wood I use comes from trees, which are native to the southeastern United Sta...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art
Materials
Wood, Polyurethane
Mine, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jaime Ellsworth paints the everyday experiences of the animals she handles. She portrays a white dog vigilantly watching an eager crow. The dog sits wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Be Yourself" Decorative Monochromatice Abstract Figurative Clay Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Yeonsoo Kim, "Be Yourself," Monochromatic black and white clay vessel, White stoneware, black underglaze, 11.5 × 12.5 × 13 inches.
Korean ceramic artist Yeonsoo Kim masterfully blen...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art
Materials
Stoneware, Underglaze
Hit The Pop Hole - Original Pop Art Food Painting by Gary John
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene during the Art Basel Miami art fair in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Pastry chef food cooking theme sweet color figure resembles delicious cakes
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is inspires by the painting of chaim soutine pastry chefs.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Solitary (original mixed media on paper)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on 10.5 x 7.5 inch paper mounted on 14 x 11 inch paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Frame size approx 20 x 17 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condit...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$1,250 Sale Price
50% Off
Dog
Located in New Orleans, LA
Starsky Brines’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
$13,200
Noche Crist Nude Goddess Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind Goddess sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Sculpture is made from polyester res...
Category
1970s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
$563 Sale Price
24% Off
The Wild Ones, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Soft brushwork and a mix of bright and gentle hues bring a sense of calm to this misty scene. Lively wildflowers bloom in the foreground, their cheerful tones a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
JOLLY RIDER
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas.
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Little Apple Tree' original oil on wood painting signed by Robert Richter
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Robert Richter places the viewer at the foot of a path that wraps around and beyond a small apple tree. Whereas many of his paintings use deep and richly saturated ...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Dog portrait Memorial Drawing
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Lovely Dog memorial drawing signed Sheridan
"Scarab", 1998. Color pencil on sheet of yellow paper, 8.5 x 11 inches.
Signed, titles and dated upper right.
Unframed.
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Dog Ball Bird, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jaime Ellsworth captures a clever brown dog skillfully balancing a red ball and a black bird on its head. With curious gazes, the critters turn to their right as if something has piqued their interest. The two-tone backdrop of ochre and moss green sets the stage for this endearing scene.
About the Artist
Jaime Ellsworth paints animals. Her career as a cowhand never got off the ground, so she stumbled into art never knowing it would complement her passion for animals so completely. Most subjects are her own, but lately she has expanded out of her corral to include bears and beasts not commonly seen on San Juan Island, in the Pacific Northwest, where she's lived for the last 30 years. She suspects it will be years before she runs out of inspiration or has jeans that aren’t covered with paw prints or paint.
Words that describe this painting: dog, bird, ball, whimsical, happy, playful, animals, acrylicpaint, portrait, profile, primitive, animals, primitive, acrylic painting, brown
Dog Ball...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
French Mid 20th Century Watercolour, 'Le Hameau et la Bastide'.
By Yves Brayer
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century gouache on paper of a Provençal village or 'hameau' and a 'bastide' or manor house in the landscape signed or titled 'Bodol' and dated bottom right.
The style and c...
Category
1950s Outsider Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Sal Hays (not Hayes)
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Outsider artist Scott Harbison imagines a world of curious alien beings and wide-eyed mutant animals, naively navigating unknown territory. His mischievous figures are activated by s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Board
Camel, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Jessica JH Roller paints a self-portrait of a mastered yoga pose. It captures the geometric beauty of the posture called Ustrasana, or Camel. The subtle curve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Black Cat on Cyan, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints a primitivist portrait of her cat, Rachel. With her sleek black fur and striking yellow eyes, the feline's electric personalit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Girl on Beach, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young woman stands on the beach, a red flower adding a touch of whimsy to her pink bikini. Bold lines outline her figure as stylized waves crash behind her....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled 5 - Herd Animals
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Foam Board, Felt Pen
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Saint Minecraft XXV (Gestural Abstract, Portrait, Persian Artist, 20% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Golfam Jozdani
Saint Minecraft XXV
Mixed Media on Cardboard; Acrylic, Pencil, Colored Pencil
Size: 9.44 x 14.17 inches (24 x 36 cm)
Signed and dated by hand
COA provided
*Framing Op...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard, Pencil, Color Pencil
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil, Watercolor
DANCING BIRD
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas.
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Flower Caryatid - Blue Woman Shaped Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Important one of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). A shaped painting titled " Flower Caryatid". Noche Crist imbued her cutouts with more...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Mirror, Plaster, Wood, Acrylic
$2,813 Sale Price
24% Off
Hawk and Fish, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A stylized hawk spreads its wings before an orange sun, surveying a tiny pond below. This scene is inspired by a morning fishing outing where artist Jessica J...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Cat with House Plants, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A poised cat with striking blue eyes sits amid an array of houseplants and dining wares. Pops of yellow contrast vibrantly against the background. The bold li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
LOVE CAT
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas
by artist Daria Kusto
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
ADVENTURE DREAMS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas.
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Rosemary on Deep Blue and Flowers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
During chilly weather, Rosemary often sits by a warm radiator in artist Jessica JH Roller's studio, observing falling leaves and busy squirrels outside. The room boasts a cluster of houseplants in various containers, alongside Jessica's nearby easel. One Wednesday morning, Jessica found inspiration from both Rosemary and a specific ceramic pot.
About the Artist
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints whimsical and playful compositions of animals and people, marked by bold colors and primitivist linework. She distills a scene into a few simple shapes, using color to create contrast and vibrancy, often choosing palettes that reflect pop culture. "My adopted kittens, Tony and Larry, opened my eyes and unleashed the artist inside me," shares Jessica. "After, I started to notice birds, trees, color, everything." Jessica brings to life her dynamic creations in the comfort of her studio in her century-old home. She enjoys listening to music and audiobooks while painting with her 18-year-old acrylic-covered easel. When not painting, Jessica cherishes time with her family and five cats, teaches yoga, and enjoys cycling along the river.
Words that describe this painting: cat, folk...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is made with casein on plaster on wood. Catalogue of a postumous ret...
Category
1960s Outsider Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Casein
FREEDOM
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas.
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
$2,133
Large Masterwork Haitian Folk Art Steel Drum Metal Work Sculpture Murat Brierre
Located in Surfside, FL
This work is hand signed. It is not dated.
Murat Brierre or Murat Briere (1938–1988) was one of Haiti's principal metal sculptors. He was influenced by George Liautaud, but his work acquired its own, highly experimental style, often focusing on multi-faceted and conjoined figures, fantastically personified elements, and unborn babies visible within larger creatures. He sculpted works that reflected both Christian and Haitian Vodou themes.
Murat BRIERRE was born in Mirebalais in 1938. He first worked as a builder, cabinetmaker and blacksmith before being introduced to Le Centre d’Art in 1966. After trying painting with DeWitt Peters, he realized that metal sculpture was best suited for him and studied under Georges Liautaud in order to learn the métier. He also made very beautiful linocuts. Francine Murat quickly recognized his talent and considered Brierre to be one of the best Haitian sculptors. He passed away in 1988 at the age of 50. Brierre was known for his recycling of surplus steel oil drum lids.
Brierre worked as a brick mason, cabinetmaker, tile setter, and blacksmith. He was born in Mirebalais or Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was the younger of two brothers. His older brother, Edgar Brierre, was a painter and sculptor. The brother's signed their works with only their last name, creating some confusion within their professional circles about the authorship of their work.
Brierre's sculptures typically ranged from three to six feet in length and reflected Christian, Haitian Vodou, and folklore themes. Brierre was also a painter, but ultimately chose to work with metal because he felt that the material was saturated with spiritual energy. It was a laborious process. The oil drum lids were hammered flat, drawn onto, then cut with a razor. The sheet was then cut with a chisel before finishing was completed with a file. By the mid1970s, Brierre's sculptures included pronounced areas of cut outs surrounding long curved lines of metal. Brierre's iron sculpture titled Chien de Mer overlays a dog head onto the body of a fish.
Haiti has long celebrated a rich artistic and cultural heritage. Georges Liautaud (1899–1991) ignited the Haitian metal sculpture movement in the 1950s in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. A blacksmith by trade, he fashioned crosses for public cemeteries before creating more elaborate cut-metal works. Liautaud disseminated the distinctly Haitian art form to emerging artists, such as Murat Brièrre (1938–88) and the Louisjuste brothers, Sérésier, Janvier, and Joseph (1940–89). They, in turn, taught others in Croix-des-Bouquets, including Gabriel Bien-Aimé (b. 1951) and Serge Jolimeau (b. 1952), Haiti’s two leading metal sculptors working today.
Discarded steel oil drums have historically served as the base material for Haitian metal artists. The drums’ lids are cut open with a chisel and hammer and a long vertical split is made along the side of the drums. The interiors are filled with dried sugarcane or grass and lit on fire to remove any grime; once cool, the drums are flattened into sheets. Designs are chalked on; pieces are then cut and sculpted using only hand tools and further enhanced by hammering, embossing, cutting holes, and bending the metal. Sculptures reflect everyday life portraits, imaginative themes, and motifs of Haitian Vodou, an African Diasporic religion. Some of the many forms that appear include angels and winged creatures, mermaids and other aquatic figures, musical bands, animals, and earthly, paradisiacal scenes.
Solo exhibitions
1967 – Haitian Art Gallery, New York
1968 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Bradley Galleries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Georgetown Graphics Gallery, Washington D.C.; Menschoff Gallery, Chicago; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Roko Gallery, New York
1969 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Showcase Gallery, Washington D.C.; Botolph Group, Boston
1970 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1972 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Roko Gallery, New York
1979 – Areta Contemporary Design, Boston
Group exhibitions
1969 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1974 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1978 – Brooklyn Museum, New York (traveling)
1982 – Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1983 – Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
1985 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1987 – Musée du Panthéon National, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1988 – Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris
1989 – Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2006 – Phyllis Kind Gallery in conjunction with the Outsider Art Fair, New York
2024 Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance, Luhring Augustine, Tribeca, New York
2023 Haitian Metal Sculpture, SFO Museum, California, USA
2015 Celebrating African American Art, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
An important exhibition of works by outstanding African American artists. Included were: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Murat Brierre, Beverly Buchanan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art
Materials
Iron
The Great Cake Caper, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The Great Cake Caper of 2019 happened in the early morning hours while the moon was still out on a Tuesday," says artist Andrea Doss. "The thieves made off w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Look At Me" Decorative Abstract Figurative Clay Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Yeonsoo Kim, "Look at Me," Colorful red clay vessel, underglaze, 13 x 11 × 13 inches.
Korean ceramic artist Yeonsoo Kim masterfully blends the ancient Onggi tradition with bold, con...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art
Materials
Clay, Slip
Magic Hour (Stranger than Paradise) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Hour (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition 3/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Trash Talk, seated shirtless male figure parrots & cat yellow & warm green color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Recent oil on linen canvas mounted on cradled wood panel signed and dated on reverse. Part of an ongoing series by the artist in his humorous observation of humans and their pets
ABO...
Category
2010s Outsider Art
Materials
Linen, Wood Panel, Oil
Noche Crist Goddess Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind Goddess sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Catalogue of a postumous retrospecti...
Category
1970s Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
$600 Sale Price
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Lavender with Coneflowers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A purple Siamese cat sits upright against a vibrant turquoise background filled with coneflowers. Artist Jessica JH Roller emphasizes the similarity of forms ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
By Purvis Young
Located in New York, NY
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
The painting measures 65 x 48 inches. We love that in the middle of ...
Category
1990s Outsider Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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