Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists |
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In the hands of these little-known artists, patches of wasteland become transcendent kingdoms. Empty lots and sheds are gateways to healing and the heavens. Homes and yards are simultaneously museum and masterpiece. Mysterious machines and concrete menageries; thrones of bone and towers of steel; volumes of poetry and libraries of wordless books: all are created by the 22 artist-environment builders featured in “Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists,” an exhibition on view now through January 2008 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Featured artists include Levi Fisher Ames, Jacob Baker, Emery Blagdon, Loy Allen Bowlin, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, David Butler, Nek Chand, John Ehn, Nick Englebert, Tom Every, Ernest Hupeden, Peter Jodacy, Mary Nohl, Frank Oebser, Carl Peterson, Clarence M. Powell, Sam Rodia, Dr. Charles Smith, Fred Smith, James Tellen, Stella Waitzkin, and Albert Zahn.