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Out and About is a very special group show curated by Jim Prez whose unique talent as a curator comes from being an artist himself and being an avid discoverer of new, innovative artists who work on the periphery. In this grouping Tim has chosen a wide variety of artists who are both geographically and stylistically varied. The artists come from Florida, Puerto Rico, Vermont, Georgia, New York City, Oklahoma and the mountains of Colorado. The medium of their works range from wood to pillow cases to canvas to cardboard to paper and their subjects include, the Bible, T.V personalities, animals and flowers, doctors in the operating room, the Titanic, Hollywood stars and memory paintings all a kind of Outsider Pop Art. Jim is including works by V. Hecht, an artist whose work he found in a Thrift Shop. Very little is known about her. Her works include paintings of TV Personalities such as Mary Tyler Moore, Archie Bunker, Marcus Welby, Johnny Carson and Sonny and Cher and Chastity. Also being shown are works on wood by Roy Finster, the son of the 'Outsider legend' Howard Finster. We are also showing Paul Humphrey whose hand colored drawings of "Sleeping Beauties" are also being shown at The Door to the Invisible show. Paul started out by painting sleeping faces on pillow cases and eventually, in 1992, after suffering a stroke which affected his entire left side, he began his extensive series of drawings which he "Xeroxes and then colors the copies." Jim Prez describes the artists this way: "Zoa has two children and lives in the Colorado Rockies. Kate lives in Oklahoma and studies the Bible. Tino and Carol live upstate New York, outside of Syracuse. Roy lives in Sommerville, Georgia. Howard is his dad. V. Hecht was from Florida. She is no longer among the living. Paul lives in Vermont where he was a house painter until he had a stroke. Carol does not like the cold. She never comes up north of St. Petersburg, Florida. Max lives in the East Village but spends a lot of time in Vermont." This show is part of trio of shows that A Gallery is presenting in the month of January to run concurrently with The NYC Outsider Art Fair. The other shows are THE DOOR TO THE INVISIBLE folk art of the 21st century at A Gallery @ the Chuck Levitan Gallery Space and THE HUMAN NATURE OF GOD, drawings by Ad Maas at A Gallery @ Wares For Art.
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