Folk & Fine Art

June 21 through July 27, 2014

 

Folk Art, Outsider Art, Naive Art - - -  Galleries and collectors call it by many names.  Regardless of the category, this genre of art holds many charms.  It often alludes to archetypical imagery, the color is typically bright and basic, and this art, at its best, always has a ‘wow” factor.

 

Fine and Folk Art now has a showing that you will never forget.  You may wish that you could, but you never will.  We will confess that many of our pieces were culled from the stacks of art found in thrift shops.  Some are anonymous cast-offs.  Others come from a featured Berkeley artist that has never been shown to the public before.  The fact is that these images came from no art school, no college, and no art academy.  They sprang from the human spirit.  That same human spirit that painted images on the so famous cave walls of France and Spain.     

 

The word “naiveté,” has many connotations.  Many of these are rather derogatory and dismissive.  In this art show, we use the term in its most positive sense, as, “unconsciously artless,” or, “unaffected.”  Straight from the heart, perhaps.