Accidental Genius at Milwaukee Art Museum

If you are in Milwaukee..
come see the feature exhibition at the art museum. The show celebrates a gift to the museum of over 300 works from collector Anthony Petullo. Categorized as 'outsider art,' simply meaning work by self-taught artists working outside the mainstream, the show represents over 50 different artists working throughout the 20th century. Vivid, varied, colorful, obsessive, spiritual, strange, ugly, beautiful. Not a show to miss! Here are some of my favorites:

Cover of exhibition catalogue; detail of The Demoness of Urgency, 1958, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern

The Demoness of Urgency, 1958, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern


Moon Prisoners, 1955, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern


God Created the Heavens and the Earth, 1968, Consuelo Amézcua


untitled, n.d, Måna Lagerholm


untitled, n.d, Madge Gill


Book #6 Elementa, 1994, Anne Grgich


untitled, 1960/63/66, Minnie Evans


Deutschland, Lüneburg, 1992, Johann Garber


Deutschland, Lüneburg (detail), 1992, Johann Garber


Elaborate Bottle Cap Staff, n.d, Mr. Imagination


untitled, n.d, Albert Louden


The Greedies, ca. 1945, Scottie Wilson


Images of Men Strangling Children (detail), n.d, Henry Darger


Blengiglomeneans Displaying their Wings (detail), n.d, Henry Darger



More information and a complete list of artist biographies can be found on the MAM website:
www.mam.org/accidental-genius/



All images courtesy of Accidental Genius exhibition catalogue.

completed this week...

love & yes

love & yes, rectoverso



Portrait of Bob with hexagons
I saw the film I'm Not There for the first time recently (highly recommend it if you love Bob!) and it inspired this portrait.

rectoverso


together
edge is 1/16 inch thick and reads "Together we can do what we never can do alone."

rectoverso




all 5 x 7" on davy board

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Selbstbildnis (self-portrait)

my obsessive new self-portraits.. Both are double-sided, 5 x 7" on davy board.




Tribute to the artist and yogi in me..

...featuring Hannah Hoch, Rene Magritte, ee cummings, and Frida Kahlo.

currently working on...

These are all 4 x 6" or 5 x 7" double-sided collages on foamboard, with the exception of "Always and Everywhere," which is on Davy board.



Syzygy:

Syzygy, rectoverso:


Everything:

Everything, rectoverso:


Audacity:

Audacity, rectoverso:


The Great Nebula:

The Great Nebula, rectoverso:


Always and Everywhere:


Always and Everywhere, rectoverso:


Primeval World:

Primeval World, rectoverso:

BERLIN...

.. is colorful!
Here are some pictures from my trip in January. Art is everywhere.