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

THE TOY SHOW Garde Rail Gallery presents "The Toy Show", the first themed show at the gallery. Owners Karen Light and Marcus Pina asked a number of the self-taught artists on their roster to create "toys". The toys should be actual toy-like objects, able to be "played" with, kinetic pieces that call for interaction. The results range from toy ships, blocks, and cars, to bone dolls and B.B. games. Many years ago, Anne Grgich created toy blocks for her child Jasper to play with. Upon visits with Annie at her home, we had always been attracted to her painted toy blocks. We asked her about painting some and the show grew from there. John Taylor creates beautiful ships from found objects. We thought it would be wonderful to have some toy ships. Fortunately, so did John, with spectacular results. Kentucky woodcarver LaVon Williams carved some wonderful cars, while Alabama folk artist Buddy Snipes created more of his bone dolls and popular tin cutouts. Florida artist Ruby C. Williams responded with her had painted rag dolls, while fellow Floridian Jerry Coker sculpted a trio of scrap metal animals. Snohomish artist Mark O'Malley painted on puzzles, B.B. games, and tops, and Aberdeen's Stephen Powers will contribute toy rockets and UFO's.

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