Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Venue Partner)
756 N Milwaukee Ave
312.243.9088
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Sister Gertrude Morgan, Revelations, ca. 1970 Mixed media on paper 22 x 14 inches. Collection of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Gift of Susann Craig.
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- When
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July 8, 2011 – Jan 14
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (11am–5pm)
Thursdays (11am–7:30pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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- Price
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$5 / FREE to members and children
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“One of the hallmarks of outsider art is a nontraditional relationship between image and text — such as emphasizing text's visual qualities through repetition in space, and captioning built into visual images themselves rather than sequestered separately. Intuit's group show of artists who incorporate text into their work is thus a far-ranging and educational body of work for understanding many canonical outsider artists from Howard Finster to Sister Gertrude Morgan. Though the show focuses on the role of the "prophet" in outsider and intuitive art, literal messages are no more highlighted than automatic writing and text as pattern-making.”
Monica Westin, Flavorpill
From street preachers to sermonizers of all persuasions, this exhibition will feature artists who use written words as an integral part of their art. Art can be used as a form of communication and self-taught artists often use text as a way to complete their message. Other artists, such as Dwight Mackintosh, use text as a sort of pattern or separate creation as his automatic writing is completely illegible. Whether it is the Biblical passages of Sister Gertrude Morgan, the rants of Jesse “Outlaw” Howard or the misogynistic diatribes of Prophet Royal Robertson, for each of these artists the message in the text is as important as the image.
