b-b-bonus this week in outsider art // september twenty-seventh
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FIND OF THE WEEK
Emily Dodson makes some of the most joyful and colorful artwork. Looking at any and all of her work brings a smile to my face and makes me so happy. This work titled ‘Owl of the Night’ is a work that was inspired by and created "collaboratively” with Payton McGowen, as the two artists have been working through the creative process to brainstorm, share sketches and ideas to come up with a handful of works of art to take place in 'Tandem’, a group project pairing six artists with and without disabilities to create some fantastic works of art.
This is available for purchase as part of SAGE Studio & Gallery’s “Tandem'“ exhibit
B-B-BONUS
Like most weekday mornings, I am frantically attempting to get my room ready for the rush of students who are hopefully thrilled to hear me talk about Art History and Graphic Design. One thing that helps this, or at least puts me in the right mindset for the onslaught of students that doesn’t seem to end until I can no longer stand, is listening to David Bowie helps quite a bit.
One thing I enjoy about Ziggy Stardust, The White Duke, Mr. Jones — whatever you’d like to call him, is that he was a big fan of the visual arts. Particularly outsider art. He was a big fan and drew inspiration from the late great Daniel Johnston and, in the early 90’s, paid a visit to the famed Galerie Gugging art gallery and studio in Austria.
For some reason, these things cross my mind at least once a week, and it was at this moment that I opened my computer to write this newsletter that I was reminded that David Bowie also created some pretty striking artwork himself, which I lay before you now.
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