Study Group 3: Outsider Art
2019-20
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
In Study Group № 3—spearheaded by CE Committee member Lotte Van De Walle—we travelled even further “beyond the canon”, examined its borders, and plunged into the turbulent waters of “Outsider Art”! We presented any aspect of outsider art that interested us: We looked beyond the rules in Study Group 3, so anything and everything was possible ;-) !
This study group was done on Zoom as we all continue to shelter in place. Here are video segments of the presentations for you to view.
Jody Foster: Considering the Role of Art in Mental Health (9 minutes)
Barb Nelson: Guerrilla Girls (11 minutes)
Tony Misch: Martin Ramirez (24 minutes)
Lotte Van De Walle: Willem Van Genk (15 minutes)
Suman Ganapathy: Tibetan Thangkas (19 minutes)
Susan Curtin: Paa Joe (7 minutes)
Liana Salikhova: Nikola Leivetz (7 minutes)
Louise Persson: Alebrijes (11 minutes)
Links:
PDF's of all presentations (on Box)
Tate Kids page with Guerrilla Girls
Also, Jody found the link to Women who Transformed Art in the West at Stanford where the Guerrilla Girls participated.
Virtual tour of Paa Joe: Gates of No Return exhibition
Film about Paa Joe available on Amazon Prime: Paa Joe & the Lion
Suman prepared a PDF in greater detail about the Tibetan Thangkas which you can download. This includes information on all of the Thangkas photos in the gallery. Also other resources:
In case you are interested, here is an excellent write-up of an interview with a thangka master painter and teacher. from Nepal. A few things are incorrectly stated: e.g. azurite and not lapis lazuli is used for painting.
Here is the Facebook page link to the Live May 7 Buddha Jayanthi puja from the Mirik monastery, Darjeeling (Buddha's birthday). If you fast forward, you will get a peek into larger thangkas at the monastery. My uncle is on the board and I was lucky to be able see the 21 Tara room in the monastery last year, closed to most people.
A few thangkas were exhibited at the Rubin Museum in New York, and was supposed to be on till June 2020, but is closed right now.
