"Art Brut And Then Some" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery
This event has ended.
The field of Art Brut and its redheaded stepchild Outsider Art, is going through some healthy changes. It has been self-referential as a field in Europe since the early part of the Twentieth Century. However, in the United States, Art Brut has only been known for about forty years. It is indeed a history that has yet to be written in its fullness. It has also taken a strangely provincial path given the universality of the art and the art makers’ visions. We almost always know it when we see it but we have yet to hear a description or definition of it that is wholly convincing.
And now we have seen enough of it that we know it has a huge range of process and presentation, and yes, of quality as well. If we think of this work and mainstream work as two circles that overlap, then we will see that there are places that are mutually exclusive and will never touch, and places that will be blended and nearly indistinguishable. This exhibition covers the circle on the non-mainstream side.
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Schedule
from September 10, 2011 to October 15, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-10 from 17:00 to 19:00