Featuring Cindy Gosselin, Eugene Andolsek, Lino Zerda, John Henry Toney, JJ Cromer, Kevin House, Terry Turrell
Aarne and Tina Anton have been exhibiting at the Outsider Art Fair since its beginning 33 years ago. For most of that time as American Primitive Gallery in NYC and transforming with the onset of Covid into Nexus Singularity north of the city. Inspired by the diversity of self taught art, we will be creating an eclectic supernatural booth of both contemporary works of art and discoveries from the past. Behind the door or portal of Nexus Singularity we will offer an experience unlike anything we have done in the past. We invite you to share our excitement with art that can transport one to other realms.
JJ Cromer comes to creating art with obsession after working as a librarian in the past in Virginia coal country. He lives in a rural setting with his wife and young son and animals. His humanistic and environmental concerns are expressed in poetic and intuitive ways with his shifting art on paper.
Terry Turrell is a self-taught artist creating both paintings and sculpture since his youth when his father had an auto scrapyard where he could make his own toys. In his early days in Seattle he supported himself selling T shirts that he would paint on in a market. He now lives as a recluse with his animals and paints often using found materials to express himself. He has developed a following at the Outsider Art Fair.
Kevin House is a self-taught artist and musician who works in painting and sculptures incorporating storytelling traditions, hoax stories, poetry, and photography. He grew up in Canada and resides in Vancouver. Kevin has been shown in Canada and at OAF in the past. He is included in a recent book Outsider Art of Canada.
“My art work Is a collection of sculpture, paintings and drawing that I imagine discovering buried in some attic or museum of the mind and the subconscious will do much of the work.”
John Henry Toney was a self-taught African-American artist from Alabama who began making art late in life. He spent most of his life living in a trailer without running water or heat on 10 acres of land. He worked a tractor plowing fields and one day he unearthed a turnip that had a face and took it home. He did a drawing of the turnip with face and then sold it. Thus began a new phase of his life as an artist.
Lino Zerda was discovered by my wife Tina in a homeless shelter with a group of paintings. As a bicycle messenger in NYC he had been hit by a truck and suffered broken bones and loss of his memory and identity. He had visions after his accident of being transported to a cloudscape and being shown different vistas for reentry. Later he rediscovered he had an apartment and found papers revealing who he was and that his family was in Argentina. A newspaper article in The NY Times from June 4, 1994 by Michael T. Kaufman revealed his full story.
Cindy Gosselin creates her bound sculptures with focused obsessive intensity. Pulling various threads from spools she wraps various found objects into cocoon-like forms. She is given an opportunity to create with donated materials at the Ccnter for Creative Works in PA. Working without sight she creates a self-made tactile world while also finding inspiration from music.
Kevin House
The Invisible Spectators of Lightning Magic, 2023
Paint, paper on wood
12 x 8 in
$1400
JJ Cromer (b. 1967)
The Squeek of Your Shoe! (You Want to Strike It With a Stick!), 2024
Mixed media on paper
10 in x 8 in
$1800
Eugene Andolsek (1921-2008)
Untitled, 1970-1980s
Colored inks on graph paper
18 in x 13 in
$3500
John Henry Toney (1928-2019)
She Walked Out of Her Shoes, 2001
Markers on poster board
22 x 14 in.
$1500
Cindy Gosselin (b. 1964)
Untitled, 2022
Thread, yarn, pens, and markers
8 in x 11 in x 8 in
$1000
Cindy Gosselin (b. 1964)
Untitled, 2022
Thread, yarn, plastic, unknown
5 in x 9 in x 8 in
$1200
Kevin House (b. 1966)
Raindrop Queen & The Telegraph Kid, 2024
Paint, marker, on paper on wood
8 in x 8 in
$1200
Nexus Singularity / Aarne Anton
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Pomona, NY 10970
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