Top image via Raw Vision, featured below.
This week's digest brings you stories from Spain to Austria, from spirit drawings to chainsaw sculpture. We've also got gallery rescues, historic tapestries, and a reminder that visionary art thrives wherever people create outside the mainstream.
Josefa Tolrà
Raw Vision profiles this Spanish medium who channelled positivity through her drawings and textile work. Her practice offers a compelling example of art as spiritual documentation. Read it at Raw Vision.
Gugging, Hauser and Walla
A celebration of the Austrian museum and two of its most significant artists. The feature reminds us how important institutions like Gugging have been in championing artists with disabilities. Read it at Raw Vision.
Self-Taught Artist Carves Logs into Amazing Sculptures Using a Chainsaw
Good News Network covers a chainsaw sculptor transforming timber into intricate works. The direct, physical relationship between artist, tool and material is something special. Read it at Good News Network.
Michigan's Architectural Outliers, From Historic Home Studios to Outsider Placemaking
Newcity Art explores Michigan's visionary environments and unconventional architectural sites. These spaces show how self-taught builders create entire worlds from their imaginations. Read it at Newcity Art.
Houston exhibition explores memory and mythmaking in the American landscape
The Art Newspaper reports on a show pairing Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee, exploring hidden histories in the landscape. Buchanan's shack sculptures and drawings deserve wider recognition. Read it at The Art Newspaper.
Police and firefighters break into gallery after sculpture is mistaken for a person in distress
A sculpture of an art preparator with legs sticking out of a crate prompted an emergency rescue in the middle of the night. The work was convincing enough to fool even the authorities. Read it at The Art Newspaper.
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