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 Fresh Squeezed: Selections from the Collection of Orange Hill Art February 10-April 15, 2004 Contemporary folk art encompasses a wide range of media, from paintings to assemblage, sculpture and environments and grows out of folk and craft traditions. Folk artists are sometimes referred to as self-taught when they are working outside the confines of art schools, galleries, and museums. Although having little to no formal training has been viewed as limiting, to the folk artist it becomes an asset of freedom from institutional convention and expectation. The artists are individualistic and have very diverse backgrounds. Some self-taught artists live in urban communities; others rural environments. Some are destitute; others are working-class. Some illiterate; others write statements and manifestos about their ideas and work. Some work in isolation from other artists; others collect the work of their colleagues. The artists were selected because their work was rich in those qualities that characterize any serious work of art, inherent expressive power, the transformation of an idea, emotion, vision, or communal values into a personal form, visual impact and enduring resonance. |
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