"Outliers and American Vanguard Art" at Lacma, Los Angeles

Type 42 (Anonymous), Ava Gardner, mixed media on photography, 1960s-1970s, 8,3 x 10,8 cm

Type 42, Morton Bartlett and Eugene von Bruenchenhein are part of the show "Outliers and American Vanguard Art", curated by Lynne Cooke at LACMA, Los Angeles until March 17, after it was shown in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in 2018.

LACMA hosts the West Coast presentation of Outliers and American Vanguard Art, the first major exhibition to explore key moments in American art history when avant-garde artists and outliers intersected, and how their interchanges ushered in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The first part of the exhibition illustrates how the early history of American modernism, especially the first years of the Museum of Modern Art, championed folk art and self-taught artists before the ascendance of abstract expressionism. The second section begins in the late 1960s when artists affiliated with the Chicago Imagists and West Coast assemblage practices became the leading advocates for outliers and visionary artists. The third section shows the continued impact of outlier practices on contemporary art.

The exhibition features over 250 works in a range of media by more than 80 self-taught and trained artists such as Henry Darger, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Lonnie Holley, Greer Lankton, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Matt Mullican, Horace Pippin, Martín Ramírez, Betye Saar, Judith Scott, Charles Sheeler, Cindy Sherman, Bill Traylor, and Kara Walker.

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Check out the catalogue of "Outliers and American Vanguard Art" at National Gallery of Art

Catalogue "Outliers and American Vanguard Art", National Gallery of Art

Type 42, Morton Bartlett, Eugene von Bruenchenhein are on view until May 13, 2018

"Outliers and American Vanguard Art is the most comprehensive show ever to examine outliers in dialogue with their established peers. It is sure to inspire vigorous conversation about how artists and the work they make are represented.

Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has been fascinated by outliers, whom it draws selectively and intermittently into its orbits. For a new exhibition launching at the National Gallery of Art, curator Lynne Cooke explores shifting conceptualizations of the American outlier across the 20th century, drawing on the inherent sociality of the exhibition in her installation of these works. This companion catalog, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, offers a fantastic opportunity to consider works by schooled and self-taught creators in relation to each other and defined by historical circumstance."

Lynne Cooke

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TYPE 42 (Anonymous) in "Outliers and American Vanguard Art" at National Gallery of Art, Washington

TYPE 42 (Anonymous), Courtesy Delmes & Zander 

Curated by Lynne Cooke, 

on view from January 28th - May 13th, 2018

Outliers and American Vanguard Art focuses on three periods over the last century when the intersection of self-taught artists with the mainstream has been at its most fertile. It is the first major exhibition to explore how those key moments, which coincided with periods of American social, political, and cultural upheaval, challenged or erased traditional hierarchies and probed prevailing assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture.

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