New York Outsider Art Fair 2025
It’s that time of year again when the New York Outsider Art Fair opens its doors to artists, new and old, and I am excited, once more, to be part of it. I have a vast array of women artists to showcase.
why we linger at site festival
‘Why We Linger’ at Site Festival 2024 in Stroud. An exhibition showcasing all the artists that the Gallery represents.
WHY WE LINGER
A group exhibition showcasing all the artists that the Jennifer Lauren Gallery represents
New York Outsider Art Fair
It’s that time of year again when the New York Outsider Art Fair opens its doors to artists, new and old, and I am excited, once more, to be part of it. I have a vast array of talented artists to showcase including: Kate Bradbury, Nek Chand, Miguel Ángel Hernando, Carlo Keshishian, Pradeep Kumar, Cara Macwilliam, Mohammed M’rabet, Chris Neate, Valerie Potter, Shinichi Sawada, Marie Suzuki, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Terence Wilde.
Oxmarket Open 2022
About the Exhibition
Three artists I work with were selected for the first ever Open exhibition at Oxmarket Contemporary in Chichester. Cara Macwilliam featured with the newest of her small vibrant coloured ‘Energy’ drawings, Valerie Potter featured with a small cross-stitch embroidered work, and Terence Wilde featured with a detailed black and white pen drawing. The works selected for the open all fall under five categories: applied arts (craft), drawing & illustration, painting, print & photography, and sculpture.
Outsider Art Fair New York 2022
Jennifer Lauren Gallery returned to the Outsider Art Fair in New York for its 30th anniversary edition. Held at the Metropolitan Pavilion from 3–6 March 2022, there were many celebratory events throughout the run of the fair.
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To All the Kings Who Have No Crowns
Carl Freedman presented Jennifer Lauren Gallery, showcasing seventeen international, distinct contemporary practices, revealing a diverse collection of art forms including drawing, painting, ceramics, embroidery and found object sculptures.
Intersect Chicago
About the Exhibition
Jennifer Lauren Gallery presented new works for the virtual edition of Intersect Chicago 2020 from 6-12 November 2020. The fair was the evolution of SOFA – Sculpture Objects Functional Art. It was the intersection of art, design and objects. SOFA includes daily highlights on Glass, Contemporary Art, Design, Ceramic and Craft, Outsider Art, Fiber and Public Art / Sculpture.
The Jennifer Lauren Gallery showcased: mystical sculptural creatures from Japanese self-taught artists Shinichi Sawada and Akio Kontani; personal clay beings from British artist Terence Wilde; fun and colourful hand-felted 'Makoot' dolls from Japanese artist Makoto Okawa; layered web-like textile structures from British artist Aradne; symbolic cross-stitch and complex monochrome works by British artist Valerie Potter; imaginative pencil drawings from American artist Margaret Mousseau who only started drawing in her sixties; and not forgetting a new artist Joyce Davies from the Shetland Isles, who has created some powerful mono-screenprints.
Writer Edward Gomez has written about his curatorial selections HERE
Outsider Art Fair
About the Exhibition
The Outsider Art Fair Paris went virtual in 2020 due to Covid-19. The Jennifer Lauren Gallery was sorry to be miss people in person in Paris this year, but was pleased to present a gathering of new works, some never seen before, from artists the Gallery supports. You can no longer view the link to the page since the fair is over, but below is a selection of works from the artists I shared at the fair. You will see: eighties colour pop wonders that have never seen the light of day from Valerie Potter, cosmic visions in colour and monochrome from Julia Sisi, Moroccan beings from Mohammed Mrabet, layered communicative works with colour and symbols from Robert Fischer, detailed carved toothpicks from Pradeep Kumar and iconic spiky creatures from Shinichi Sawada. Not forgetting Jesse James Nagel making his debut with a visionary wonder with a fantastic title!
Autobiographic: Valerie Potter and Carlo Zinelli
About the Exhibition
The drawings and fabrics of Valerie Potter (b.1954) were unveiled after the discovery of a book by the late Roger Cardinal in a reduced book section near the artist’s home. Upon reading the seminal Outsider Art, Potter decided to send Cardinal a group of her drawings. The art historian was so impressed, he agreed to curate Potter’s first solo exhibition at the University of Kent, where he was teaching. The author subsequently introduced her material to Monika Kinley and other collectors.
Over the next thirty years, Potter embarked on a creative and autobiographical journey. Impulsive sketches and drawings evolved into delicate hand-stitched tapestries, with imagery and humorous text offering insight and advice. These instinctive explorations of the artist’s subconscious were not originally intended to be seen, let alone sold. Rather, they were a way for the artist to express an interior monologue. Yet Cardinal’s intervention and encouragement led them to occupy in an important place in the British canon of the then emerging genre known as Outsider Art.
Today Potter continues to alternate between cross-stitch works, line embroideries and elaborate colour weaves. Her work is included in a number of important collections, including the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection at the Whitworth (Manchester), The Museum of Everything (London), the Haines Collection (London) and the Moscow Museum of Outsider Art (Montenegro).
NOTE: A 360-degree view of the exhibition is available on the bottom of the exhibition page on the Gallery of Everything page that you can click on here. On that page, on the floor plan, click on the white circles on the right picture for Valerie’s work.
Outsider Art Fair Paris 2019
About the Exhibition
The Jennifer Lauren Gallery made its debut at the Outsider Art Fair in Paris in October 2019 alongside other galleries such as Cavin-Morris from New York, Creative Growth from California and Galerie Atelier Herenplaats from Amsterdam.
Jennifer took nine artists to the fair: Aradne, Hakunogawa, Akio Kontani, Chris Neate, Valerie Potter, C.J. Pyle, Nobuo Sasaki, Shinichi Sawada and Makoto Toya.
Outsider Art Fair New York 2019
About the Exhibition
2019 started with a bang with my second appearance at the New York Outsider Art Fair. There were new ceramic works by Shinichi Sawada and automatic black and white drawings by Chris Neate, alongside 1970s mosaicked sculptures by famed outsider artist Nek Chand. Three artists made their debut at the fair too: complex colourful drawings by Japanese artist Norimitsu Kokubo, delicate but dark embroideries by British artist Valerie Potter and overlaid text and block colour drawings by German artist Robert Fischer.