b-b-bonus this week in outsider art // december thirteenth
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FIND OF THE WEEK
What dialogue could I even add to this masterpiece? Perhaps because it’s getting colder, darker, and drearier around these parts, but this flower painting from Canadian folk artist Joseph Sleep absolutely warms my art. The folks at Black Sheep Gallery, like ‘founding member’ and supporter of this newsletter Audrey Sandford, has a great newsletter where you be notified of more works like this, and a fantastic gallery in Nova Scotia which I hope to visit one day soon to discover some of the best folk art in all of Canada. Thank you for this Joseph Sleep, it’s cold and I needed this.
This could be yours and is available for purchase from Black Sheep Folk Art.
B-B-BONUS
This year, I have been teaching Intro to Photography, and if my students learn one thing, it is that I love the photographer Nan Goldin. I’ve been hearing some students say, “Photography is not an art class I thought you were an art teacher,” which of course, I don’t take personally, but do like to rub in their faces that Nan Goldin was named The Most Influential Art Figure of 2023. it doesn’t much matter to most of them…
Nan Goldin has an incredible story, takes really great photographs, and is currently working around the clock to take down the Sackler’s as an activist - all of which are captured in the Oscar Nominated documentary ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’.
On top of that, I have stumbled upon some raw and striking drawings and paintings that were a part of an exhibition of Nan Goldin’s work called, “Blood on My Hands”, on display at Matthew Marks Gallery. Reminiscent of David Bowie and Kurt Cobain’s work in my mind, I love seeing work by an artist in a medium in which they aren’t particularly known for. I hope you enjoy them too. Content warning, some works are a little explicit — hence the “Blood on My Hands” exhibition title.