Exploring the relationship between Outsider Art environments and contemporary art installations, The Raw and the Cooked considers the similarities and differences in these highly imaginative realms. Taking OAF’s Curated Space project related to the visionary environment Pasaquan as the point of departure, the panel discussion presents the polished perspective of two exhibiting artists, who are actively engaged in creating public and installation art, and two exceptional art professionals, who are at the forefront of appreciating and preserving the passionate enterprises of under-recognized, self-taught artists. The evening will be moderated by Paul Laster, New York Desk Editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a Contributing Editor at Whitehot Magazine for Contemporary Art and artBahrain, and a frequent contributor to Time Out New York, GARAGE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Observer and Cultured Magazine. He recently co-curated (with Renée Riccardo) the exhibition “Maker, Maker,” a group show of contemporary works that blurred the boundary between fine art and craft, at the Children’s Museum of the Arts in New York. The panel will include multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, Karen Patterson (Curator, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin), Michael McFalls (Director of Pasaquan and Professor, Columbus State University, Georgia), and multidisciplinary artist Ellen Harvey.
New York City, NY; NYC