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folk art

One Fine Show: “The Lost World, The Art of Minnie Evans” at the High

In Atlanta, the artist’s hallucinatory compositions challenge the boundaries of so-called folk art with their depth and technical complexity.
By Dan Duray
Colorful woven textile artwork mounted on a white gallery wall, depicting a figure in a patterned blue coat walking outdoors among trees and fields. Abstract shapes, bold florals, and zigzag patterns fill the right half, blending landscape imagery with decorative, tapestry-like textures and visible fringed edges.

Christina Forrer’s Whimsical Wonderlands of Myth and Memory

Her folkloric figures are bound not by narrative certainty, but by unseen forces—family, fables and the psyche—that stretch across the human experience like nerves.
By Mya Ward
A quilt in shades of pink, blue, red and gray set in geometric patterns

One Fine Show: ‘Patterns in Abstraction’ at the High Museum of Art

American folk art appeals at times like these because it seems to exist outside of the contemporary art historical narrative, but it’s really not that far removed from the conversation.
By Dan Duray
A colorful painting of a pig with stylized folk art details

Maria Prymachenko’s Show at The Ukrainian Museum Rekindles the Potency of Folk Art

By Farah Abdessamad

Bill Traylor’s Outsider Art Found a Devoted Admirer in William Louis-Dreyfus

By Helen Holmes
A painting by Tizzie Mills. (Photo: Alanna Martinez)

Outside In: Finding the Next Self-Taught Master at the Outsider Art Fair

By Alanna Martinez
William Edmondson, Boxer, (ca. 1937). Est. $150,000-$250,000. (Photo: Christie's)

What’s the Breakout Market of 2016? Insiders Bet on Outsider Art

By Alanna Martinez

Top To-Do: Old Money, Big Money at Sotheby’s

By Jennifer Ashley Wright
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