Category: Outsider Art
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Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium
Quick, think of a subject for a tattoo! Did an image of a skull come to mind? I mean, skulls can be cool, and I’ve seen some rather amazing skulls in the course of looking at tattoo art, but if you see enough tattoos, you begin to get a feeling of “C’mon now, how many…
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Mati Klarwein
In 1938, while researching derivatives of the fungus ergot in search of pharmaceutical applications in the treatment of migraines, Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hoffman synthesized a chemical called lysergic acid diethylamide-25, which came into common parlance, and common use, in the early and mid-1960’s as LSD. It was a few years later before Hoffman, reportedly…
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Kris Kuksi
Kris Kuksi is an artist of seeming contradictions. One moment he’ll be fascinating you with his grotesque, darkly themed “Mixed-media Assemblages”, or disconcerting you with his jarringly electric fantastic realist visions; and the next moment he’ll surprise you with classical portraiture, traditional figure drawing or a delicate, naturalistic rendering of a freshly opened orchid or…
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Andy Paiko
Andy Paiko is a glass artist who creates glass sculpture as well as sculptural vesselware and traditional vesselware. I suppose “gothic” might be a term applied to his fascinating constructions of ornately crafted glass that often incorporate the skulls of small animals, spine-like constructions and other natural elements in ways that are slightly creepy but…
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Stephen Rothwell
In 1934 Max Ernst published a Une Semaine de Bonté (A Week of Kindness), a Surrealist novel in collage. Ernst created his work, which I think is one of the earliest works that could be called a “graphic novel”, by painstakingly cutting out images from engraved catalog and periodical illustrations and arranging them in fascinating,…
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Julian Beever (update)
Julian Beever is perhaps the best known “pavement painter”. He uses colored chalk to create complex drawings on sidewalks in public spaces. Like those of his contemporary Kurt Wenner, these sometimes are giant reproductions of old master paintings. The most interesting, though, take the form of large scale anamorphoses, images distorted in such a way…