Outsider music and art have been friends in almost every way since they were created. That collaboration is celebrated in the Outsider Art Fair will be held at the Metropolitan PavilionThis weekend, New York.
Howard Finster
The exhibit — which is celebrating its 30 th year and is billed “the only fair dedicated to showcasing self-taught art, art brut and outsider art from around the world” — features more than 60 international exhibitors, including works from the Michael Stipe Collection as well as an exhibition of psychedelic art curated by Fred Tomaselli called“Field Trip: Psychedelic Solution, 1986 – 1995.”
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The latter is filled with work from the likes of pioneering underground cartoonist/Zap Comix artist Spain Rodriguez, R Crumb, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson along with original artwork related to artists like Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and the Who — there’s even the original drawing that spawned the Grateful Dead’s logo along with the origin story as well as preparatory drawings for the Jerry Garcia solo album “Compliments Of”Artist Victor Moscoso, 1974.
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Los Angeles painter Eric White and filmmaker Aaron Guadamuz will curate a show of works by the late self-taught artist and clay animator — and longtime Frank Zappa collaborator — Bruce Bickford (1947-2019), a longtime collaborator of Frank Zappa, and Phillip March Jones will organize an exhibition of highlights from the collection of Michael Stipe, an early collector and advocate for Southern self-taught artists including Reverend Howard Finster.
Nicole Rudick will moderate an OAF Talk on Field Trip: Psychedelic Solution. Panelists Fred Tomaselli and Carlo McCormick, along with Jacaeber Kastor, founder of Psychedelic Solution, will discuss the topic. Tickets for the event will be available later.