NYAB Event - Outsider Art Fair

Outsider Art Fair

7 W 34th Street

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Few fields within the international art market have grown as energetically or been as consistently marked by innovation, unusual discoveries or cutting-edge cool as that of outsider art. The term refers to works made by artists who never went to art school and who generally make their paintings, drawings, sculptures and inventive, mixed-media creations for themselves or for small, local audiences, outside or removed from the cultural or commercial mainstream. Often, the visionary, deeply personal, soulful character of their work is hard to miss. It is this compelling creative spirit that has attracted the impassioned interest of collectors, dealers, curators, critics and trained artists around the world for more than half a century, and which inspired the founding of the Outsider Art Fair in New York 20 years ago. This year, the fair, which has become the art market’s most high-profile venue for the presentation and sale of the newest creations by outsider/self-taught artists from around the world, and a locus for the collecting trends and the lively critical debates that percolate through this still-evolving field, will mark its big anniversary with the participation of dozens of exhibitors from North America, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, along with a wide-ranging program of related, special events.

[Image: Eugene von Bruenchenhein "No. 220. May 3, 1955" Oil on art paperboard. Courtesy Dean Jensen Gallery]

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Sculpture
• Installation

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