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Currently Available: Donald Mitchell: Right Here, Right Now |
One is Adam, One is Superman |
Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott |
Dwight Mackintosh: The Boy Who Time Forgot
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Donald Mitchell: Right Here, Right Now
editor and principal essayist, Cheryl Rivers
with contributors Tom di Maria, Lucienne Peiry, Frank Maresca, Lyle Rexer and Colin Rhodes
Hardcover 92 pages; 39 color and B/W photographs
Publisher Creative Growth Art Center
Published in October, 2004
ISBN 0-9759115-0-3
This new monograph of essays explores the fascinating artwork of Creative Growth artist Donald Mitchell. For nearly 20 years, Donald Mitchell’s densely populated drawings have filled Creative Growth’s gallery and studio with his crowds of unmistakable figures. Cheryl Rivers brings together a group of internationally known writers and collectors to explore the questions raised by Donald Mitchell’s work. Essays address topics ranging from the use of repetitive motifs, the context of Outsider Art and an implied ‘center,’ understanding Mitchell’s work in the studio, and exploring the impact Donald Mitchell has had on collectors, artists, and scholars throughout the art world. Right Here, Right Now includes 40 beautiful photographs of rare and exemplary work by Donald Mitchell, drawn from international private and public collections.
about the editor:
Cheryl Rivers currently teaches at the American Folk Art Museum’s Folk Art Institute and is a contributor to American Anthem: Master Works form The American Folk Art Museum, The Encyclopedia of Folk Art (2004), and Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, The Bible, and the American South (2004).
suggested retail price: hardcover $24.99
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One is Adam, One is Superman
The Outsider Artists of Creative Growth
by Leon Borenzstein
Introduction by Tom di Maria
Essay by John MacGregor
8-3/4 x 11-1/4 in; 128 pp; 100 color and B/W photographs
Hardcover
Published in December, 2004
ISBN 0811845311
Providing innovative art programs to adults with developmental, physical, mental, and emotional disabilities, Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California, is the oldest and largest nonprofit visual art center in the country. The outsider artists of Creative Growth produce extraordinary artwork -- painting, sculpture, drawing, collage -- that can only come from within. In this collection, photographs by Leon Borensztein portray each artist honestly and positively, while statements from the artists themselves capture their personal connection to their work. One is Adam, One is Superman offers the viewer a window into the lives and creative souls of these exceptional individuals.
about the authors:
Leon Borenzstein is an internationally renowned photographer whose work has appeared in Life, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue International. His photographs can be found in the collections of major museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Oakland, California.
Tom di Maria is the Executive Director of Creative Growth Art Center.
John MacGregor, Ph.D. is a Princeton-trained art historian and a recognized authority on psychiatric and outsider art. Dr. MacGregor was the 1990 recipient of the Ernst Kris Prize of the American Society of the Psychopathology of Expression.
suggested retail price: hardcover $40
Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott
by John MacGregor
183 pp ; 50 color and B/W photographs
Hardcover
Published in September, 1999
Publisher Creative Growth Art Center
ISBN 0967316006
Judith Scott, a sixty year old woman with Down's Syndrome, has spent the past fifteen years producing a series of totally non-functional objects - obsessively wrapped, knotted, braided fiber masses revealing hints of concealed scavenged objects, pieces which loom large and wraithlike or sit as small tightly wound secrets. Her works, to us, appear to be works of Outsider Art sculpture, except that the notion of sculpture is far beyond her understanding. As well as being mentally disabled, Judith cannot hear or speak, and she has little concept of language. There is no way of asking her what she is doing, yet her compulsive involvement with the shaping of forms in space seems to imply that at some level she knows. Does mental retardation invariably preclude the creation of true works of art? Is it plausible to imagine an artist of stature emerging in the context of massively impaired intellectual development?
Metamorphosis charts a remarkable body of work over a period of 12 years in the Creative Growth Art Center studio in downtown Oakland, California. The inner world of an Outsider artist is revealed in Judith Scott's fiber sculptures and made accessible to the reader by the poetic prose of author John MacGregor.
This lovely hardcover book is illustrated with beautiful color photographs by internationally renowned photographer Leon Borensztein
about the author:
John MacGregor, Ph.D. is a Princeton-trained art historian and a recognized authority on psychiatric and outsider art. Dr. MacGregor was the 1990 recipient of the Ernst Kris Prize of the American Society of the Psychopathology of Expression.
Dwight Mackintosh: The Boy Who Time Forgot
by John MacGregor
96 pp ; 50 color and B/W photographs
Paperback
Published in 1990
Publisher Creative Growth Art Center
Creative Growth’s first monograph investigates the work of internationally renowned artist Dwight Mackintosh, who ranks as one of Outsider Art’s most celebrated artists. Mackintosh’s fascinating and kinetic works of figures, inventive writing, and flights of fancy have been regularly included in major exhibitions and collections throughout the world.
about the author:
John MacGregor, Ph.D. is a Princeton-trained art historian and a recognized authority on psychiatric and outsider art. Dr. MacGregor was the 1990 recipient of the Ernst Kris Prize of the American Society of the Psychopathology of Expression.
suggested retail price: hardcover $14
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