Art world links which caught my eye...
Carolyn Cassady "Portrait of Neal Cassady , 1952" Red ink on cardboard 9 7/8" x 13 5/8"
Earlier in 2024, The New York Outsider Art Fair included a display of artworks by authors and others associated with the Beat literary movement.
"Beat Art Work: Power of the Gaze is an archival worthy exhibit, featuring portraits that engage in a magnetizing play of binaries: Who is looking at whom? Four principal Beat writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso are featured here. And joined by Joanne Kyger, Carolyn Cassady, Edie Parker (with an early portrait of Kerouac from 1943), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the legendary Moroccan novelist and painter Mohammed Mrabet, as well as African-American international poet and artist Ted Joans, who famously proclaimed, 'Jazz is my religion.'...
"These artworks are complicated stories from a radical and precipitous time, much as now, roiling with social pressures and issues of race, sexuality, identity, status in the endless war syndrome. The entangled friendships lasted through quintessential loyalty. These individuals met and caught each other on the 'meat wheel' as Kerouac called it, with joy, wit, and lives of devoted art practice and 'high talk.' Personal exchange was electric, vital, fiery, nourishing, skillful. Remembered."
Read the full article here: OUTSIDER ART FAIR - Beat Art Work: Power of the Gaze
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