Outsider Art Fair: 2024

29 February - 3 March 2024

125 W 18th Street

Booth B4

Dutton is pleased to participate in Outsider Art Fair, New York and will show a break-out presentation of Rose deSmith Greenman's drawings of vessels and trees, a significant group paintings from the 1960-80s by Australian bushman Selby Warren, anonymous art from a collective of women working in 1930s Chicago, a debut of ceramic sculpture by Ruth Howard, Alan Constable's ceramic cameras, Robert Rapson's ships, and new drawings by Anthony Romagnano and Alvaro Alvarez alongside historical works from a private collection in New York including Madge Gill, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Moses Tolliver, José Nuñez, and Evelyn Reyes.

ROSE DESMITH GREENMAN

1898-1983

b Boston, MA

Seemingly out of nowhere, Greenman began drawing obsessively in her 70s over a period of seven years while struggling with Alzheimer's disease. Spending most hours alone, she used pencils, pens, crayons and markers to interpret her world virtuosically - creating demur,

constrained drawings of her home, garden, and family as well as

transformative works from her imagination out of saved scraps of paper from family members. Greenman's diminutive vessels and trees embody a markmaking which is woven as tightly and expressively as it possesses an all-encompassing reverence and boundlessness.

"Rose's drawings raise many interesting questions about creativity, art and the brain. Does Alzheimer's disease interfere with or contribute to creativity...? Perhaps the most important finding we discovered is that creativity and growth can continue into the later years of life, despite the psychological effects of a devastating illness like Alzheimer's

disease." -Dr Peter Fleming, Faulkner Hospital, Boston
SELBY WARREN

b. 1887 - 1979

Trunkey Creek, NSW, Australia

Selby Warren was an Australian bushman who spent his life in Trunkey Creek and began making visual records of his life experiences in 1963 on found materials using brushes he made with his own hair. Memory paintings are anchored in rural scenes of his life shearing, as a stockman, itinerant laboring, and in expressions of rural folklore; poems and ballads he liked to recall; iconic Australian landmarks and political figures, often fusing his paintings with elaborate frames that are constructions. Discovered when he was 84 years old when a painting was seen hung at the local pub the Black Stump, Warren drew a great deal of attention over a period of three years after his first exhibition at the age of 85 at Rudy Komon’s legendary gallery in Sydney in 1972 – followed by exhibitions in Melbourne and Brisbane which led to much critical and media acclaim. As Komon remarked Warren was “one of Australia’s greatest art finds”... “one of a half a dozen like him in the world.” These significant paintings come from a private collection in Sydney, Australia, which acquired the holdings of the Rudy Komon Gallery, Woollahra.

“I’ve lived in the bush all me life. I’ve seen things that don’t happen in Australia any more...So when I took up painting I was able to put it all down.”
ALVARO ALVAREZ

B. 1965, San Jose, Costa Rica

Lives and works in Melborne, Australia
ALAN CONSTABLE

b. 1956, Melborne

Lives and works in Melboenr, Australia

Alan Constable's singular sculptures of cameras, telescopes, projectors, and binoculars are imbued with a heightened tactility and inner life. Legally blind and deaf, Constable is renowned for his ceramic cameras that reflect his life-long fascination with old cameras, when he began constructing replicas of cameras from cereal cartons and glue at the age of eight. At the studio Constable holds research images or source objects millimetres from his face, committing the form to memory by tracing the surface with his fingertips. Every protrusion, button, and lens of a specific camera model is faithfully captured in intricate detail, down to tiny scrawled lines and letters. Form and perspectives shift and Constable's re-interpretations become at times anthropomorphic vessels and totems.

Curator Matthew Higgs stated that "Constable, who is legally blind, makes incredible ceramic sculptures of cameras, which should, in my opinion, be in every major museum collection."
RUTH HOWARD

b. 1968

Lives anbd works in Melborne, Australia
ANTHONY ROMAGNANO

b. 1985

Lives and Works in Melborn, Australia
Aditional works by

Robert Rapson
Alan Constable
José Nuñez
Evelyn Reyes
Guadalupe Ramos
Madge Gill
Jimmy Lee Sudduth

Sykora

Rafaelo