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Edward M. Gómez

Edward M. Gómez is a graphic designer, critic, arts journalist, and author or co-author of numerous books about art and design subjects, including Le dictionnaire de la civilisation japonaise, Yes: Yoko Ono, and The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation. He has written for the New York Times, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Salon, Reforma (Mexico), the Japan Times (Japan), and other publications. Edward is the senior editor of Raw Vision, the London-based, international, outsider-art magazine. He is based in New York and London.

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At the 2017 Dallas Art Fair, Big Ambitions and the Big Mo

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez April 8, 2017April 10, 2017

Mayor Mike Rawlings recently announced that the city’s annual Dallas Arts Week would become Dallas Arts Month, starting on April 1. Its centerpiece, the Dallas Art Fair, now in its ninth edition, has become a symbol of the local arts scene’s impressive growth and increasing momentum.

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In Carlo Zinelli and Eugen Gabritschevsky’s Art, the Life Spirit Endures

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez March 25, 2017March 26, 2017

Diving into the American Folk Art Museum’s two new exhibitions, it’s quite likely that your head will spin — for all the right reasons — in the presence of some very potent expressions from two unsinkable human spirits.

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In Texas, Valton Tyler’s Unusual Art Conjures Up an Extraordinary World

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez March 18, 2017March 17, 2017

Tyler not only believes that his art-making prowess is a gift from God, and that he is merely the vehicle through which such a divine gift must be dutifully expressed, but he also regards his drawn or painted “shapes” as somehow alive.

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Jamaica Report: A Biennial, Bragging Rights — and the World’s Largest Drum?

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez March 11, 2017March 10, 2017

“Jamaica, no problem!” a local adage advises, serving as a reminder that, here, life unfolds, and big events like biennial art exhibitions materialize according to their own rhythms and in their own good time.

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From Curiosity to Institution: The Outsider Art Fair at 25

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez January 14, 2017January 15, 2017

The 2017 edition of New York’s Outsider Art Fair will mark the 25th anniversary of what has become one of the international art market’s most distinctive, lively, and sometimes contentious forums for the presentation of often label-defying forms of artistic expression.

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In a New Photobook, Stirring Memories of Man on the Moon

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 5, 2016November 4, 2016

The Moon 1968-1972, an attractive new book containing photos from NASA’s Apollo Program, which 47 years ago landed the first men on the moon, evokes the rich mixture of emotion, yearning and speculation that have long surrounded Earth’s mysterious companion and neighbor.

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Bold Spirits: The Jamaican Intuitives Ras Dizzy and Leonard Daley

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez October 29, 2016October 29, 2016

Both Ras Dizzy and Leonard Daley were key figures in a group of artists who came to prominence in Jamaica several decades ago. Collectively, they became known as the “Jamaican Intuitives.”

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Yoko Ono’s Art in Remote Japan: Traveling Far to See the Sky

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez October 8, 2016October 7, 2016

In a woodsy patch of a park tucked next to a stream, one of Yoko Ono’s most unusual creations can be found in what is, for any artist’s work, a most unexpected setting.

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In New Paintings, Elisabeth Condon Pours on Color and Unexpected Forms

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 10, 2016September 13, 2016

It isn’t easy to make a good abstract painting.

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Roger Ricco, Artist, Has Something to Show You

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez August 20, 2016August 21, 2016

Roger Ricco is an artist. He is also a steel-foundry worker’s son, a former rock-band promoter, and a co-founder and co-director, with Frank Maresca, of Ricco/Maresca, a well-known New York venue specializing in contemporary art by both schooled and self-taught artists

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In Houston, an Outsider Art Trove Finds a Museum Home

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez August 13, 2016August 22, 2016

HOUSTON, Texas — In this long, hot summer of violence, election-campaign anxiety, and widespread malaise, seekers of relief might find solace in music, movies or visits to museums — that is, in art in general, not so much for escapism, but for art’s reassuring messages about the endurance of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

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In Switzerland, Art Brut Goes Back to Its Roots

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez July 16, 2016July 16, 2016

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The roots of art brut, as a field of research, may go back a century or more, effectively (if perhaps unwittingly) tracing the evolution of this unusual art genre in parallel with but separate from that of modern art.

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