Keith de Lellis Gallery LLC, based in the Fuller Building in New York City, is pleased to announce its participation as a first-time exhibitor in the Outsider Art Fair, an annual event featuring a world-class roster of the most important dealers in outsider art, folk art, crafts, and numerous other categories that transcend the realm of the traditional in the field of art. The fair will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion, located at 125 West 18th Street, and will run from February 27th - March 3rd, with a vernissage on the evening of February 27th from 6-9 PM.
Keith de Lellis has been dealing in art and antiques since 1970, first as a private dealer, and in 1997, he opened his first gallery on East 68th Street off Madison Avenue. The gallery primarily deals in photographs of nearly every category, from traditional art photography by acknowledged masters of the medium to the overlooked and undervalued photographers who have not yet gotten their due.
Additionally, the gallery features several categories of photography rarely seen in commercial galleries, and that material will be well represented at the Outsider Art Fair. Included will be: American Primitive portraiture from the mid to late 19th century, daguerreotypes, Spirit Photography, Photomontage, photographs created as religious and military propaganda, snapshot photography, vernacular photography by African American practitioners, early color photographs of bodybuilding competitions, vintage astronomy photographs deaccessioned from the archives of The British Astronomical Association, and nudes from the early 20th century created as works of inspiration for painters and sculptors, among others.
Also featured in our booth will be the work of Joe Massey, a recently rediscovered African American outsider artist who produced a fascinating body of imaginative drawings with poetic text while in prison in Ohio in the 1940s. Examples of his art and poetry were originally published in his lifetime in Charles Henri Ford’s seminal publication View Magazine, which featured a dazzling assortment of the most accomplished international artists of the postwar period. You can visit us at Booth C11
