THIS WEEK IN OUTSIDER ART

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.” ― Ernest Becker

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MARIA PRYMACHENKO Savage Hump-Shaker (1977)

JORDAN SULLIVAN Life Goes On Till it Doesn’t (2022) // Pencil and Colored Pencil on Found Paper — available for purchase in the FolkArtwork shop

JENNIE PETTWAY Medallion Variation (ca. 1975) // Cotton, rayon, polyester, and corduroy; 82 × 72 inches via High Museum of Art

MARY K. BORKOWSKI Trapped (1968) // Cotton and silk thread on polyester via American Folk Art Musuem

ARTIST UNKNOWN Folk Art Paintings on Wood (c. 1955?) // Hand painted on kitchen cabinets in Des Moines, Iowa via personal collection

HENRY DARGER German General Staff (c. 1917 – 1930) // Watercolour, gouache and ink on printed sheet glued to cardboard via Paris Museum of Modern Art

JAMES HAROLD JENNINGS Metempsychosis (date unknown) // Polychromed wood and plastic via Black Sheep Gallery

SARAH LEE The last day of the Dodo revivalist de extinction programme (date unknown) // Acrylic on 220gsm textured paper — available for purchase via the artist on the #FolkArtwork shop

HELEN MARTINS The Owl House (c. 1945 to 1976) via The Owl House Foundation h/t SPACES

B. F. PERKINS Sacred Condor (1990) // Acrylic on canvas; 36″ x 40″ via via Black Sheep Gallery

FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK

CHARLIE VISCONAGE A warrior prepares (2023) // Acrylic, house paint, gouache, and glow in the dark paint courtesy the artist

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Welcome to the FolkArtwork Collective Reneesha Mccoy

I am very excited to welcome Reneesha Mccoy to the FolkArtwork Collective!

A principle theme in Reneesha’s work is her celebration of the consequence of life and nature in relation to the female body, often in abstracted ways. She uses her personal experience to highlight the internal and external effects of childbirth, particularly the physical changes that occur from breastfeeding.

RENEESHA MCCOY

Reneesha is a self-taught artist who began her artistic practice in 2019, living and working in North Carolina. She works primarily in acrylics and oil pastels, though in some of her works you’ll notice the additional exploration of various mediums like colored pencil, ink, and paint markers.

Reneesha’s artistic process involves studying the anatomy of the female form and challenging herself to present her interpretation in new and conceptual ways.