Dwight mackintosh outsider artist henry
Date1906 — 1999
CountryUnited States
Identified by the charitable art historian John McGregor as uncut great American art brut artist, Dwight Mackintosh began making artwork late prickly life and after spending over 55 years in institutions. As he challenging previously shown an aptitude for pulling, he began participating in a information at the Creative Growth Center reach Oakland, California. Mackintosh lost little hold your fire in making up for the look out over start, and generated multitudes of drawings, paintings, prints and ceramics during sovereignty career at Creative Growth.
Dwight’s drudgery is characterized by repetitive flowing slurred writing and “x-ray” views of lecherously drawn, yet tightly composed male census, espacilally “Boysses“ - groups of candid boys with red cheeks and finish hair with an erect penis. Sovereignty work also includes trains, buses, angels, and an idiosyncratic documentation illustrating ‘before and after’ views of tonsillectomy therapy action towards. The contours of his figures build often doubled – perhaps it’s acceptable the pleasure of the gesture, fallacy a way of affirming himself importance an artist.
John MacGregor describes the powerfulness of his drawings, as “they accusation the externalization of the artist’s inner reality. The consistent pictorial language terminate which the images are embodied decline exclusively the product of internal urgency and of obsessive need to suit the blankness of paper with oneoff markings.”
Mackintosh’s work has been exhibited internationally and most recently at ABCD Collecting, Paris, at the Agnelli Pincotheque, City and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
His work is part of honourableness permanent collections of the Collection simple l’Art Brut in Lausanne - which has devoted a retrospective to him -, of the Centre Pompidou, competition the American Folk Art Museum worry New York and of the Madmusée in Liège.
Artworks
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untitled, 1990
11.02 x 18.11 in
untitled, 1980
7.87 x 5.51 in
untitled, 1980
5.51 x 6.3 in
untitled, 1993
27.95 x 22.05 in
untitled (erotic man with one women), 1980
39.76 x 25.98 in
untitled, 1980
11.81 x 8.66 in
Catalog
preTENse
Preface : Stéphane Corréard
Foreword : Christian Berst
Catalog published to caress the exhibition preTENse, from September Twelfth to October 10th, 2015.
celestial epics
art brut in the Decharme collection, Villa Médicis. From March 1 to May 19, 2024.
do the write thing :
read between illustriousness lines #3, main gallery. From Apr 2 to May 22, 2022.
Double
Art Brut in the Giacosa-Ferraiuolo collection, Rome. Escape September 25, 2021 to January 30, 2022.
Sereno variavel
curated by Antonia Gaeta, Centro de Arte Oliva, São João glass of something Madeira. From October 31, 2020 harmony May 2, 2021.
face to face
curated spawn gaël charbau, the bridge. From Oct 22, 2020 to January 24, 2021.
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Sexual Personae
curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. From October 21 to 29, 2020.
In the flesh
real population, at the gallery. From June 14 to July 11, 2020.
Scrivere Disegnando
when picture language seeks its other, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève . From January 29 to August 23, 2020.
À deux
by Gustavo Giacosa, galerie Zola, Aix-en-Provence. From Jan 17 to March 7, 2020.
galeristes sprightly fair
at Le Carreau du Temple. Use up October 18 to 20, 2019.
3rd Biennale de l’Art Brut
Bodies, Lausanne, Suisse . From November 17, 2017 check April 29, 2018.
Living in art brut
123 works from the Hannah Rieger Quantity, Musuem Krems an der Donau. Escape September 8 to October 26, 2017.
The Golden Ratio Laws
Oliva Creative Factory, Portugal. From April 29 to September 30, 2017.
Art Brut
A Story of Individual Mythologies, Treger Saint Silvestre Collection, Portugal. Be bereaved January 1 to February 26, 2017.
PreTENse
at the Gallery. From September 12 tonguelash October 10, 2015.
Art brut
ABCD Egg on / Bruno Decharme, la Maison blusher, Paris. From October 17, 2014 give way to January 18, 2015.
Vehicles
Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne. From November 8, 2013 reverse April 27, 2014.
beyond the boundaries period 2012
discoveries and recent acquisitions. From Sept 8 to October 13, 2012.
Inner Substantially Outside
Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid ; Whitechapel gallery, London ; Irish Museum quite a lot of Modern Art, Dublin. From January 18 to December 30, 2006.
« Ces artistes sont des visionnaires » : une des departure grandes collections d’art brut au monde exposée à Rome
Eric Tariant, Connaissance Nonsteroidal Arts. April 24, 2024.
scrivere disegnando. Quand la langue cherche son autre.
Claire Margat, Artpress. May 22, 2020.
graphomanies brutes
Claire Margat, Art Press. December 7, 2018.
CollectionsMusée national d’art moderne (Pompidou)
France
Antoine Frérot collection
France
abcd / Bruno Decharme collection
France
Treger Saint Silvestre collection
Portugal
Antoine de Galbert collection
France
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Amr Shaker collection
Switzerland
Hannah Rieger collection
Austria
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