Justin Duerr

Born in rural Pennsylvania in 1976, Duerr dropped out of high school at 17 and moved to Philadelphia, living in squats and playing in punk bands. He worked many odd jobs over the years, including several seasons on a fishing boat in Alaska. It was at sea where he experienced what he calls an “ecstatic vision” that gave him the idea to start creating the scroll, one of which will be featured at this year's Outsider Art Fair. Since the 90s, Duerr has been part of exhibitions both national and international including a solo show at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago in 2019/2020. He is the author of multiple books including The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Worlds of Herbert Crowley, about the early 20th century visionary cartoonist. Duerr was also featured in the 2011 documentary Resurrect Dead: the Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won that year’s award for best director. In addition to all that, he’s been performing with his band Northern Liberties since 2000, touring around the country and putting out countless records. Duerr is constantly making and creating and pulling from what feels like an everlasting well of artistic energy.

Anne Marie Grgich

Having begun making art at a very young age, Anne Marie was catapulted into creating full time after suffering a traumatic brain injury from a car accident after which she began taking solace in her recovery through drawing and writing in books. Forays into collage began and developed as she perfected new techniques layered far beyond the expected “traditional” approach. It was not long before the individual nature of her work was seen as an Outsider aesthetic, signature and truly original. Within this genre of iconoclastic artists, Anne Marie has garnered much notice and found much acclaim. Images large and small, overlapping and interacting, map out scenes of an independent world of beauty brought to life through the eyes and by the hands of a most talented artist. Through different sized canvases displaying warm tones and dark tones at times mimicking the palette and sensibility of a time past reinvented for a new light, Anne Marie Grgich shows the viewer not only what is unexpected but what, at times, is unimagined.

Susan Day

Susan Day is a self-taught visual artist living in London, Ontario whose work is predominantly constructed of ceramic. She has an extensive exhibition history and her work has successfully straddled the worlds of contemporary craft and fine art. Susan’s works have been included in various important national and international exhibits including the Body and Society at the Embassy Cultural House in 1988; Revisited at the DIA Art Foundation in New York City, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana; the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta; and La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City. In her own words she says, “I make large clay vessels which create surfaces for drawings which explore identity, reflections on daily life and dream sequences.”

Konstantin Bokov 

Konstantin Bokov was born in Shostka, Ukraine. His father was a famous songwriter and poet, and it was at his wish that Bokov attended the Art Academy of Leningrad. There, he studied music and was introduced to painting. After finishing university, Bokov moved to Moscow, RUS where he encountered Van Gogh’s Red Sunset. The zealous experience of seeing that work ultimately inspired Bokov to pursue painting. In 1974, Bokov immigrated to New York City where he became a member of The Rivington School and began creating paintings, sculptural works from found objects, and DIY public installations. Konstantin Bokov has appeared alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring at the Now Gallery as well as in other exhibitions at various institutions that include the Emerging Collectors Gallery, Morin Miller Gallery, the Grant Gallery, and the Monique Goldstrum Gallery. The artist also showed at the 2008 European Outsider Art Fair in Vienna and the Outsider Art Fair in New York.