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John Outterbridge: Rag Man

January 11, 2016 By Roni Feinstein

John Outterbridge

Among the recent works by John Outterbridge on view at Art + Practice in Los Angeles are two very different series of modestly-scaled, wall-mounted assemblages, each of which evokes aspects of the African-American experience.  One is sculptural in nature, the works being made with a wide assortment of castoff objects; the other is aligned with painting, the pieces consisting both of flat and "stuffed" (puffy) pieces of fabric painted in bright colors. Both series consist of works that appear to have been constructed in a most casual and offhand manner.   Although contemplation reveals that formal and conceptual clarity underlies these works, their literal scrappiness and wholly unpretentious (almost Outsider Art) nature is fundamental to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: African American art, Art + Practice, Assemblage, California Assemblage, Hammer Museum, John Outterbridge, Junk Dada

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