RAW VISION #46 2004- CELESTE J.A

RAW VISION #46 2004

I had to put this in because I remember mentioning this artist in Foundation studies and then I never brought any of his work in. The article was about American 'Outsider' art and the American Outsider Art Fair. This is a field occupied by people who are self taught, who aren't educated in art but somehow stumbled into the art world. Also 'Outsider' art seems to have a real folky feel to it. The artist mentioned in this that I mentioned back in the day was Joe Coleman. His work is very descriptive combining text and painting to create descriptive illustrative stories. Quite often he paints narratives of serial killers, or other outrageous and elaborate people which might be involved in his life (he's really really weird, when he got married his wife wore a mermaids tale and shells glued over her nipples, she's also got 'fangs' implanted in her mouth, he's much the same).

Some of his works:





and this is him. HE'S WEIRD...