Top image via Raw Vision, featured below.
This week we're spotlighting pieces from Raw Vision's latest issue, alongside news of visionary work from the American South and a major milestone for the Collection de l'Art Brut. There's plenty here to keep you occupied.
James 'Son Ford' Thomas
A Mississippi blues musician who made clay skulls with human teeth. Raw Vision covers this remarkable crossover artist whose work sits perfectly between music and sculpture, rooted in the deep traditions of the American South. Read it at Raw Vision.
Chomo
He turned his back on the world to create a village of art in the forest. Raw Vision looks at this French artist who built an entire visionary environment away from society, a total immersion in his own creative universe. Read it at Raw Vision.
Collection de l'Art Brut at 50
The remarkable Lausanne museum celebrates its half century. It's hard to overstate the importance of this institution in championing and preserving outsider art for five decades now. Read it at Raw Vision.
The incredible and transporting art of Minnie Evans
The Guardian profiles the visionary American artist whose intricate, symmetrical drawings emerged from what she described as a divine calling. Evans worked as a gatekeeper in North Carolina and created her extraordinary botanical fantasies over decades, largely unrecognised until late in life. Read it at The Guardian.
Self-Presenting at the American Folk Art Museum
Whitehot Magazine reviews this exhibition exploring how self-taught artists present themselves and their identities through their work. It sounds like a thoughtful look at agency and self-representation in the field. Read it at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Self-taught artist André René Epps Jr. pitches 10-painting series
Rough Draft Atlanta covers this emerging self-taught artist's new body of work. It's good to see local coverage of artists working outside the traditional gallery system. Read it at Rough Draft Atlanta.
Handmade Utopia: Architecture of California's Back-to-the-Land Movement
This new book by David Jacob Kramer documents the visionary structures built by counterculture communities in California. The photographs by Michael Schmelling show how this DIY building tradition continues today, creating what amounts to inhabitable folk art. Read it at Colossal.
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