Highlights for The Outsider Art Fair 2019 (NYC)

Last Thursday night, over 2,500 fair-goers attended the opening day of the 27th edition of the Outsider Art Fair, the only fair dedicated to Self-Taught Art, Art Brut and Outsider Art from around the world.

Highlights from the Outsider Art Fair.

Guests representing the art, culture, fashion, and entertainment milieu attended an early preview held at the The Metropolitan Pavilion, located at 125 West 18th Street in New York City, including Actresses Edie Falco, Jessica Lange, Elizabeth Marvel, and Susan Sarandon; Musicians Jack AntonoffLee RanaldoAndy Rourke; Artists Maurizio CattelanHugo Guinness, and Peter McGough; Curators Jason BuschMatthew HiggsJeanne GreenbergAnne PasternakValérie RousseauStephanie Stebich, and Max Hollein; Collectors Monty Blanchard & Leslie TcheyanMichael & Eileen CohenMarty & Rebecca EisenbergAgnes Gund, and Jacqueline Schnabel.

Andrew Edlin
Andrew Edlin and Maurizio Cattelan

“We are thrilled with the turnout. Our booth has gotten lovely reaction,” said Susan Baerwald of Just Folk, who sold two artworks by outsider art staple Bill Traylor with an estimated value of $85-100,000 each. “We’ve had a very successful opening,” she concluded. “I never thought I would be here, and I thank the fair immensely for giving me this incredible opportunity,” said first-time exhibitor Michelle Maccarone, who presented the work of Jim Carrey. The response has been overwhelmingly positive toward Jim’s work, and the context could not be more perfect. This is a fair that is really about art.”

Fred Giampietro Gallery
Atsuko Barouh

Highlights this year are two hallmark OAF Curated Spaces, including Good Kids: Underground Comics from China, featuring zines and original drawings created by Chinese artists, co-organized by Brett Littman (Director, Noguchi Museum, New York) and Yi Zhou (partner and curator of C5Art Gallery, Beijing); and a second exhibition serving as an homage to the late dealer Phyllis Kind, curated by art critic Edward M. Gómez. In her obituary for the New York Times, Roberta Smith made this observation: “As the first American dealer to show outsider art alongside that of contemporary artists, Ms. Kind was in many ways as important as Leo Castelli…”

Kambel Smith at Chris Byrne
Marion Harris

Additional guests included:

Ted AllenRobert AloiaIan AlteveerAnita AntoniniEric AppelEdgar BatistaShai BaitelPeter BeardAlain BerdouareDamon BrandtMaureen BrayAlix BrownGabriel Catone & Bruce CohenRicky CliftonCheryl DunnSara DriverPari EhsanSophie ElgortEric FirestoneJoel FitzpatrickCharles GeppAlexander GorlizkiMaggie GriseBob GruenNish de GruiterChristina JappRebecca JampolAnna KarlinCarlotta KohlChristine KuanTali LennoxBrett LittmanSydie LansingKaren MartaChris MartinNicolas MirzayantzJose ParlaJamel RobinsonJane Kaplowitz RosenblumLissa RiveraAurel SchmidtAndres SerranoDaphne SeyboldEmma Snowdon-JonesSarah SuzukiCamilla de TerreEve Therond, and Ron Warren.

Mark Hogancamp
Martha Wilson

About the Outsider Art Fair:

Founded in New York in 1993, the Outsider Art Fair is the original art fair concentrating specifically on self-taught art, and exhibits works by acknowledged masters, including James Castle, Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, Thornton Dial, William Edmondson, Martín Ramírez, Judith Scott, Bill Traylor and Adolf Wölfli, as well as contemporary figures like M’onma, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Frank Walter and George Widener. Quickly recognized for its maverick spirit, OAF played a vital role in building a passionate collecting community and broader recognition for outsider art in the contemporary art arena.

Nick Olney
Susan Sarandon

In 2012, OAF was acquired by Wide Open Arts, a company formed by gallerist Andrew Edlin. With its debut edition in 2013, the fair established the Curated Space and OAF Talks programs. The 2013 fair enjoyed rave reviews and more than tripled its previous attendance records. Propelled by this success, Wide Open Arts took the fair to Paris where it recently produced its 6th edition, helping to reinvigorate the city’s long tradition of recognizing and championing art brut and self-taught artists.

Yi Zhou, Brett Littman

Partners:

ArternalRizzoli BookstoreTito’s Handmade VodkaLagunitas Brewing CompanyFine Art Conservation & Restoration Inc.Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider ArtSunday Beer CoArt21MonteroneCameron Art MuseumCultured MagazineL’Atelier Musee F. MichelAce Hotel New YorkJohn Michael Kohler Arts CenterBennington Museum Art History InnovationGod’s Love We DeliverAmerican Folk Art MuseumAmerican Visionary MuseumHigh Museum of Art AtlantaCompass Box WhiskeyRaw Vision

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