From outside to inside: Folk artist exhibit opens in Birmingham Feb 18, 2007
"The work has been known, variously, as outsider art, visionary art and primitive art, but "folk art" is now the catch-all term. Folk artists typically are untrained and often uneducated. They tend to use what's close at hand, such as house paint and items found in junk yards and on the street.The late Juanita Rogers of Montgomery molded images of animals and cartoon characters from mud and cow bones she collected outside her home. Folk art enthusiasts will be thrilled to get a close-up look at... (Shoals TimesDaily)
Dial's works express personal freedom Oct 1, 2005
The exhibit introduced artists such as Bill Traylor and William Edmondson to a receptive museum audience. The show meshed nicely with the advent of postmodernism, which challenged, eroded or entirely erased the familiar hierarchies of art history. (Houston Chronicle)
A look at modern artists Traylor and Edmondson Jul 31, 2005
Bill Traylor and William Edmondson were black, uneducated -- and modern artists ... UNTITLED (FIGHTING COUPLE): Bill Traylor, graphite and colored pencil on cardboard, 22 x 13 1/2 inches, ca. 1939-42 ... No one knows why Bill Traylor began to draw at age 86. (Houston Chronicle)
Highlands gallery shows outsider art Jun 2, 2004
I had rather have a Bill Traylor or a Sam Doyle. The diversity of Williams collection is impressive. (Waynesville Smoky Mountain News, NC)
The New Visi . . . Dec 4, 2003
Indeed, with its epic title and scale, its use of primary colors and poster paint, and its thorough rejection of formal composition and slick production values, Johanson s apparent mixture of innocence and worldliness could easily confuse his work with that of such outsider artists as Bill Traylor or Reverend Howard Finster. I am very inspired by outsider and folk art, specifically William Hawkins for his use of color, Bill Traylor for his line, Henry Darger for the darkness of his imagery,... (ARTnews)
