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Outsider Art in the Hamptons

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2nd Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons, Matt Sesow

Outsider Art in the Hamptons

Galerie BelAge

Hamptons, NY: August 2007

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2ND ANNUAL OUTSIDER ART IN THE HAMPTONS AUGUST HRU

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Please join us for a Group Reception &3 Meet the Artists Saturday, August 11th, 2007 6:00pm to 9:00pm PUETSIDER ART IN THE HAMPTONS AUGUST 3 THRU SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

‘The term Outsider Art was coined by art crite Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which iterally, translates as ‘Raw Art) “Outsider Act” Is offen applied more broad ude certain self-taught or Naive art. Much

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Collected by such John Waters, Matt Dillon and others. Don't miss this opportunity to expand your world view!

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Also Featuring works by Chagall, Degas, Dali, Picasso, Peter Mas, Andy Warhol & others

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BY AILEEN JACOBSON

alleen jacobson@newsday.com

Every night, Candyce Brokow lies stomach-down on her black velour bedspread and finishes two to three art- ‘works, she says. Many are ‘whimsical images of people or animals made with hundreds Of dots of paint squeezed from ‘tube or pen. Some dots have fires drawn around them. Some have smaller dots inside. All the art glows with color.

“t's been my salvation. I's everything to me,” says Brokow, $3, a mother of four adult daughters who lives with hher husband in a three-level house in Quogue that brims with her pieces.

Recently, her house also contained hundreds of works by other artists from around the world, propped on walls and furniture, ready to be transported to nearby Galerie BelAge in Westhampton Beach, The show, the second annual “Outsider Artin the Hamptons" runs through Sept. 14, Brokow organized it as part of her work as director of Survivors Art Foundation, an online group she founded in 1997 for survivors of different kinds of traumas.

Brokow started expressing herself through art about a decade ago, she says, to help her recover from sexual abuse and rape that she experienced asa teen. Ithas helped her heal, she says — though she wants her art judged on its Inerits, snot because of what happened to me." Brokow, who calls herself obsessive- ‘compulsive, speaks with bright, quick urgency.

“My early work was very painful she says during a recent tour of her home, as she brings out afew of those draw- ings. But it helped: “I went {from painful to happy.” Her images stil spring from her fingers unplanned, ina steam- of-eonscjousness way, she says.

Some of the proceeds from the show's sales will goto her

Candyce Brokow with one of her prints, which will be exhibited at the “Outsider Artin the Hamptons” show at Galerie BelAge.

foundation, which has patti pated in various exhibits in the past, including at the United Nations in Manhattan and Hofstra University in Hemp- stead. Six of the show’s 31 artists are members of her ‘group. Most of the artists are aught and in some way

the mainstream, includ- ing six who work in a studio in the Netherlands for mentally challenged people.

Paintings by several African- ‘American Southern folk artists ‘well-known in their field, including Thornton Dial, Pur- ‘vis Young and the late Mose Tolliver, are a major part of the show. A $12,000 piece by Dial is the most expensive, but many works are around $50,

she says. These include some of her own, drawn on small ‘squares of aluminum flashing (or roofing) she buys at Home Depot. Some of her works dangle from chains. Other artists’ works rest in revolving racks or portfolios.

But some 150 pieces — in- cluding a painting that incorpo- rates smashed Coke cans by Florida artist Missionary Mary Proctor and a child's desk by French artist Danielle Jacqui — will be on full display.

Brokow first visited Galerie BelAge, in a1927 Tudor man- sion, in the spring. “I just walked in one day with my personal folder,” she says.

‘The manager, Bob Deets, says he was intrigued. "First of

‘all, W's her persousiky. Tow cant beat that,” Deets says. “She's just a bal of energy. she's a whirling dervish of energy He was impressed by her art, he adds, and immedi ately included tin an exhibit. He als liked the idea for the outsiderart show, which last year was held in a smaller fallery."T cant wait to start Franging it he says. “Its such fun show.”

“Outsider Artin the Hamp- tons,” Galerie BelAge, 8 Monie- bogue Lane, Westhampton Beach, 10 am-S pm. Monday- Friday, 1! aim-8 pm. Saturday, noon6 pan. Sunday ree recep- tion with some artists 69 pm survivorsartfoundation.org.

Astitch in time

For Meryl Ann Butler, a quilt is like a hug, another way to heal through art.

‘When Butler, who lives in California, heard about the April shootings at Virginia ‘Tech that left 32 students dead, she was relieved to learn ‘that her daughter, who studies medicine there, was un- harmed. But, Butler says, “I ‘wanted to extend my mother’s hhug to her.”

Fortunately, Butler, who ‘grew up in Glen Cove, had just. ‘authored “90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in ‘an Afternoon.”

““Imade a comforting quilt for her, and then one for the school,” Butler says. Though she finished her daughter's lap ‘quilt in a day, the university's ‘ult took about two weeks, she says because it ha 450 pieces. She's using the larger {quilt to help raise funds for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund (Gor more on the fund, visit ‘more on the book, visit ‘90minutequilts.com)..

Butler, 4, says she also plans to give copies of her book to the Glen Cove Public Library and Glen Cove schools.

Butler came to art early in life, During and after high school, she says, she studied

‘Meryl Ann Butler, forme Glen Cove, with the quilt s made for her daughter after

authoring “90-Minute Quilts”

art with the ate Harold Ran- som Stevenson in Sea Cliff. At 21, she married and let for Louisiana, where she opened her own art school

Tn 1982, while visiting her parents in Glen Cove with her husband and daughter, she says, they all went to see “Joseph and the Amazing ‘Technicolor Dreamcoat” on Broadway. That led to her wanting to “wear my dreams" on her own clothing. ‘When she returned home, she found a woman had started quilting classes two Blocks away.

“T got hooked on textiles,” she says. “A quilt makes peo- ple feel happy” and can heal its Inaker and recipient. “They don't call quilts comforters for nothing”

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