Outsider Art - Self-Taught Art - Folk Art

Current Exhibit Rick Borg Kevin Titzer Gregory Blackstock Jack Savitsky John Taylor 2003 Open House Folk Fest 2003 Blame Canada #3: Griffin Bros. Blame Canada #2: Casey McGlynn Blame Canada #1: Jennifer Harrison The Toy Show Scattered, Smothered & Covered Folk Fest 2002 Antjuan Oden John Taylor 2002 Mark O'Malley Shoup & Sudduth Method of Annie Charlie Lucas John Taylor 2001 Yard Art Jesus Says Buy More Folk Art Scattered, Smothered & Covered Annie Grgich Zeitgeist Folk Fest 2000 August Open House Livin' In Louisiana Daniel Belardinelli Buddy Snipes Folk Fest 99 Rick Borg Best of the Northwest The End Is Near! Birds, Babes, & Bluesmen - Tom D. Shiny Happy Paintings Making Our Way Carol Myers & Wally Shoup Mose Tolliver: Art Objects from the 1980's Profile of the Future Primitive Scattered, Smothered, & Covered How Do You Like Them Apples? Kindred Spirits of Alabama Ready Or Not, Here We Come

BLAME CANADA FOR CLINT & SCOTT GRIFFIN Garde Rail Gallery celebrates FIVE years with the third show of the "Blame Canada" series. The last of a three part series, the show will feature Clint Griffin's mysterious work with found photographs, as well as his new "world maps" on scrap wood. Brother Scott Griffin's arc weld "paintings" on found industrial metal are at once haunting and beautiful. Clint Griffin was raised on a farm outside Toronto. Along with his brother Scott, the boys created fantasy worlds in which to lose themselves. Clint binds dozens of photographs together with screws, and then paints on the top surface. Curiosity and intrigue fill the layers and make the viewer want to dismantle the piece to see what lies in the other photographs. He also paints on wood, books, and canvas, creating sparse scenes that evoke a sense of waiting, a calm still amid a whirlwind, urbane existence. Clint's newest pieces are "maps", beautifully scraped into heavily enameled found wood. Scott Griffin creates dream-like scenes on scrap pieces of metal using his arc welder. Planes, people, trees and houses all seem to float over rugged pieces of industrial detritus. Moon rockets and spacemen also dance on iron, steel, and aluminum. Characters and scenes feel familiar like recurring dreams, frozen in the sinewy medium, unable to escape. The "Blame Canada" Series We're calling this series "Blame Canada" with tongue firmly in cheek. When these four Toronto-based artists burst onto the scene at Atlanta's Folk Fest in 1999, we were amazed and refreshed by their work, as were many of the dealers and collectors in attendance. In a matter of seconds, Jennifer Harrison, Casey McGlynn, Scott Griffin and brother Clint Griffin's very presence forced many to re-examine their definitions of self-taught art, and by the end what was considered a mediocre show for some, the Canadians had sold everything they had brought with them. Being educated, young, white, and Canadian, the Toronto 4 defy the usual traits of many self-taught artists in the contemporary folk art world. Still, their work contains the immediacy, urgency, and quality that is attributed to contemporary folk art. In addition, their fearlessness in use of media and subject matter is helping to define the next generation of self-taught artists. Incorporating urban and pop iconography, as well as humor and personal history, Casey, Jennifer, Scott and Clint are at the forefront of an exciting new direction in self-taught art.

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