this week in outsider art: the feeding station for sickly angels, a mexican mold for a mask, mamie deschillie + more
plus, a a colorful eddie arning drawing and the most beautiful spotted pig
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It’s always a good day when Esteban Whiteside reaches out to you with new artwork available for purchase. In the past year, this self-taught artist is broadening the materials and medium of his work and has started making these marvelous wooden sculptural pieces ripped from the headlines.
> ESTEBAN WHITESIDE is a self-taught painter whose work is based on the intersectionality of street art and politics. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, he began painting as an act of love, which then led to him dedicating more time and research into painting, with an interest in abstraction. Having always been inspired by outspoken artists, after seeing the death of Michael Brown, he felt he could no longer create work that didn’t address social issues, and began developing an artist narrative stemming from circumstances affecting the Black community.
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Grandma Tressa Prisbrey built her first bottle house to hold her 17,000 pencils. This was the beginning of The Bottle Village in Simi Valley, Calif. At 84, Grandma Prisbrey is a vivacious guide to her brilliant houses crammed with objects scavenged from the county dump. At her wittiest-she sings, jokes with her older sister, and combs through the dump. The film is an exploration of Grandma Prisbrey’s creativity, pizzazz and sense of the absurd.The film lovingly documents the interiors of 15 of her houses, including Cleopatra’s Bedroom, The Round House, as well as the marvelous sidewalk mosaics — all masterpieces of assemblage art and tapestries of artifacts from the first half of the 20th century.
“Anyone can do something with a million dollars. Look at Disney. But it takes more than money to make something out of nothing, and look at the fun I have doing it.”
TRESSA PRISBREY
Enjoy a must-watch documentary short on visionary artist Tressa Prisbrey. Part of the Visions of Paradise documentary series directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
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