Artists – Outsiders Art & Collectibles http://www.outsiders-art.com Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:52:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.14 Pierre Henry Guérard http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/pierre-henry-guerard.html Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:47:57 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=2153 Born in 1966 in Le Havre, Pierre Henry Guérard grew up in a family famous throughout France for the highly emotional firework displays they produced in celebration of great national events. As a young man, Pierre-Henry could not escape the powerful influence of his environment and by his early twenties was not only producing major pyrotechnic shows in his hometown ...

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]]> John Richards http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/john-richards.html Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:26:11 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=2136 John was born in 1936 (gosh he looks good for an old man) in Fond Du Lac Wisconsin (where the @%#* is that?).  His mother was an artist & his father a writer. Due to circumstances beyond his control, he moved to Chicago IL, Glens Falls NY, Pelham Manor NY & Saint Just Puerto Rico by the time he was ...

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]]> Jim Kransberger http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/jim-kransberger.html Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:56:52 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=1822 Jim Kransberger entered the world of Art and Crafts through the back door--he's self-taught and "later" in life. In January, 2010, at the age of 75, he made his first mechanical (automata), wooden sculptures.

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]]> Roderick McClain http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/roderick-mcclain.html Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:35:46 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=2015 Roderick McClain’s work takes place in medias res, often with a face emoting the crux of a particular story. With text giving voice to character ...

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]]> Reverend Albert Wagner http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/reverend-albert-wagner.html Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:31:36 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=1888 Celebrate Black History Month with An Exhibit Of The Late Reverend Albert Wagner One Bad Cat: The Work Of Reverend Albert Wagner From The Wesley And Missy Cochran Collection Of LaGrange, GA   February 16, 2013 – March 16, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 16, 1013 5:30-8:00 PM: Reception with Wes and Missy Cochran 6:30 PM: Performance by the Mount ...

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]]> Small Boy Bob Bullock http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/small-boy-bob-bullock.html Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:30:14 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=1881 Robert Bullock is the founder and director of the Coalition Ingenu Self-Taught Artists’ Collective. Although Bullock was also a self-taught artist with a history of homelessness, he rarely included his work in exhibits with the Collective throughout the first 15 years of its’ existence. As CISTAC evolved further away from the social service organization that had begun by conducting open ...

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]]> Sarah Rakes http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/sarah-rakes.html Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:25:19 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=1878 North Georgia resident Sarah Rakes remembers first being fascinated by art at the age of nine, when a traveling museum show came through her small Arkansas town. During teenage years marked by loneliness, she frequently turned to drawing and sculpting as an escape. Rakes did not turn to art again until 1986. Her paintings are a rich testament to her ...

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]]> Karl Mullen http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/karl-mullen.html Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:16:52 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=1871 Karl Mullen, born 1954 in Dublin, Ireland, lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts where he works in a studio in the cow stall of a nineteenth-century barn. He has developed his own distinctive approach to art making, utilizing walnut oil, raw powder pigment and a wax medium that coalesce into color-saturated, luminous images. Painting largely with his hands, Karl creates primitive, poetic ...

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]]> Mike Esslinger http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/mike-esslinger.html Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:03:31 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=1528 Mike Esslinger's art is crafted from cold rolled steel, sheet metal, and often salvaged parts. His love of big sky country, especially its night scape, inspire many of the moon and star pieces that Mike creates. All pieces are meant to age with the weather and give a timeless quality to their surroundings.

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]]> Laura Farrow http://www.outsiders-art.com/artists/laura-farrow.html Wed, 23 May 2012 19:04:32 +0000 http://www.outsiders-art.com/?p=1311 Laura was the first of three kids born to a restless Baptist minister and an artistic housewife in the early ’60s. Their wayward family provided her with a different definition of ‘home’ which was impermanent and not centered in any particular locale. Laura grew up north and south of the Mason-Dixon Line and with a focus in painting, split her ...

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