CUTTING THROUGH THE FAIR’S FESTIVE CLUTTER, SOME DELIGHTFUL DISCOVERIES EMERGE
NEW YORK — Pow! Someone whacked a giant piñata, and out poured all the color, excitement, eager sense of discovery, and endless cascade of surprises that are the essential ingredients of the Outsider Art Fair.
Back off, Basel, and vattene, cara Venezia!
It might be comparatively smaller, but this gathering, in New York, of passionate admirers of art made by self-taught creators whose life experiences have compelled them to produce paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other concoctions that, often, are hard to classify with familiar labels, is the art world’s liveliest, annual fiesta in art-fair form.
This year’s OAF is taking place from Thursday, March 19, through Sunday, March 22. Once again this year, brutjournal is serving as one of the fair’s official media partners.
This year’s event welcomes 68 exhibitors, mostly from the United States but also from Europe and Japan. Within the fair, too, “From the North,” an exhibition curated by the Toronto-based art dealer Patricia Feheley and Mark London, the director of Galerie Elca, in London, features works from Kinngait, Canada (formerly Cape Dorset), the home of Kinngait Studio. That facility, established in 1958, is the only Arctic art-making studio whose participating artists have continuously produced prints and other kinds of works since its inception.