![]() ![]() Juanita Leonard and Jimmy Morrow are devoted messengers who deliver the gospel of Jesus through their art and their Sunday services. Liggett’s work offers blistering political commentary. Billy Tripp’s immense Mindfield has a more personal focus – honoring his beloved parents. Two – Ed Galloway’s Totem Park and Frank VanZant’s Thunder Mountain – commemorate the struggles of indigenous Americans.Īnother – Joe Minter’s African Village in America – memorializes the trials endured by African Americans. Many have built impressive physical structures – including castles, museums, places of worship, miniature amusement parks, or extraordinary homes. The conceptual and stylistic scope of their work is as vast as the variety of materials and techniques they employ. They are largely self-taught, with little or no formal training. Not satisfied with visions alone, through force of will they have managed to transform their remarkable ideas into something tangible and substantial, usually with found and scavenged materials. While there is no overarching term to adequately describe the collective characteristics of these visionaries, as a group they share at least three traits.Įach of them has resisted the formidable pressures of mainstream American culture to pursue their own path and craft their own personal worlds of wonder. The term “visionary,'' however, comes closest to conveying their ethos. Cultural historians tend to define them as folk, outsider, naive, or eccentric. Trying to fit these individual artists into a convenient pigeonhole tends to be a fool’s errand. This exhibition of 54 photographs, taken over the past twelve years, honors 25 American visionaries and their often idiosyncratic, highly personal worlds. ![]()
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