The 29th Outsider Art Fair Now Open In Four NYC Galleries And Electric Lady Studios View all 35
Art fair season is upon us once again, but like everything else in the pandemic era, it s all going to be very different this time around. Starting things off is the Outsider Art Fair, which for nearly 30 years has been one of the world s preeminent showcases of self-taught artists, which basically just means anyone who makes art without any formal education, without following any particular movement or set of rules, and often without any financial motive or presumption that their work might be sold.
Outsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the Future
A scaled-back lineup includes Daniel Johnston’s colorfully nightmarish drawings, plus chunky clay cameras and quilts as abstract as anything in the MoMA.
At Electric Lady Studios, in New York City, an installation view of drawings by Daniel Johnston, the rock star and artist who died in 2019.Credit.Olya Vysotskaya
By Will Heinrich
Jan. 28, 2021
This year’s Outsider Art Fair is a stripped-down and deconstructed one, just seven curated shows spread across four Manhattan galleries and one famous recording studio. (There are also 45 online viewing rooms if you like that sort of thing.)