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Julian Martin’s untitled pastels on paper,
15" x 11", were $1200 from Fleisher/Oll-
man Gallery. John Ollman brought 21 of
them to the Outsider Art Fair, and by mid-
day Sunday had sold 18. “They’re beau-
tiful,” said the dealer, “and they resonate
between self-taught and contemporary
art.” Martin, who is 47 and autistic, lives
in Melbourne and is represented by Arts
Project Australia.
Jim Bauer (b. 1954) lives in northern California and
creates robot-like sculptures from kitchen items and
hardware. A former teapot salesman, auto mechanic,
and researcher at Kaiser Aluminum, he uses an Air-
stream trailer as his studio.
Turkey
, 2013, mixed media,
20" x 19" x 10", was displayed by the Ames Gallery,
Berkeley, California. Bonnie Grossman asked $1100
for it and displayed other Bauer creations on the walls
and floor of her booth.
Zinnias in an Orange Pot with Blue Background
, circa 1965, by Clemen-
tine Hunter was sold by Gilley’s Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The
oil on panel, 23½" x 15½", was $9000. Several wood sculptures of angels
by Shane Campbell, 7" high, priced at $400 also sold. Campbell, born in
1964 in New Hampshire, lives in Tennessee. He has severe arthritis. In a
gallery info sheet, Campbell wrote, “My work is flavored with my love of
early American antiques and my life really. I write on many pieces about
my life, hopes, dreams, rants, as well as people I know. I have found a
way of living my life through my art.”
Andy Dixon’s work was shown by
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.
Gentle-
man with Horse
, 2014, acrylic and oil
pastel on canvas, 72" x 40", was $7300.
Dixon, born in 1979, is from Vancouver,
Canada.
The Pardee Collection, Iowa City, Iowa, showed whirligigs by John Bambic, a
94-year old Slovenian woodcarver who lives in the Midwest. Sherry Pardee asked
$750 for this
Bird Whirligig
of carved wood and mixed media.
This untitled globe, 2014, acrylic and ink, by William Scott sold at
Creative Growth Art Center’s booth. It was priced at $2500. Scott
was born in San Francisco in 1964 and attends the Creative Growth
Art Center in Oakland, California. The globe, 12" x 12" x 15", was
purchased “by one of his biggest collectors,” the gallery manager said.
These “Identity Masks,” of found tin and
metal, were made in the 1990s by Jerry Coker
(b. 1938). They were from Marion Harris, New
York City, and ranged in price from $1100 to
$1400. They sold and were headed for a rus-
tic-style restaurant in New Orleans, the dealer
said. She also “had a huge response to Aleister
Crowley’s works, the first time since 1917 that
his paintings have been shown in New York.”
Harris also sold prints by Morton Bartlett.
An anonymous stone mosaic of George
Washington, found in Massachusetts, dated
1840, was displayed at New Haven, Con-
necticut, dealer Fred Giampietro’s booth. He
asked $2800 for the 18" x 14" mosaic. Most
of his booth was dedicated to hand-painted
scrapbooks by Larry Lewis (1919-2004) that
are made of collages of photocopied pictures.
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