Pandora Gold Bead - J41 artists

Opening reception for Eleven Visionaries and one Submarine, a show presenting the work of artists who have had experiences with mental illnesses, features paintings, drawings, installations, sculptures, text and video. The show explores the question, who is really an insider and who is an outsider? Pandora Gold Bead - J72 reception is free and open to the public and will take place, Saturday October 9th from 6 - 9 pm at Gallery F. @ Scarritt-Bennett 1000 19th Ave. South (corner of Grand Ave. and 19th Ave. South). Refreshments will be provided, and entertainment will include a music/dance performance by Megan Harrold and Charlie Rauh, inspired by the visionary Hildegard von Bingen, and professional karaoke by JJ Jones, who will sing pop songs-specially requested by the participating artists. The exhibit runs through Jan. 22, 2011. Featured artists Laura Hudson, Geraldine Kuttab, Cindy Buchanan, Sunny Boy Whitfield, Robert White, Thaddeus Tekell, Ron Bass and Hans Vorbusch. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

About Eleven Visionaries and One Submarine

The magazine, Raw Vision, describes "visionary" or Pandora Gold Bead - J41 artists as artists who invent their own forms and techniques and create private worlds. The art brut in this show is not made to please the desires of the viewers, but meant as a tool to fulfill the artist's desire for self-expression through art. The authentic art is multi-layered, and invites the viewers into other worlds. It leads to the question: How would art be different today if surrealist artists like Max Ernst, Paul Klee and André Breton had not been inspired by the art of psychiatric patients 90 years ago?

When 26-year-old David Alfaro Pandora Gold Bead - J09 repudiated easel art back in 1922, he wasn't simply attempting to rally support for mural painting. He was also expressing his political views. Along with Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, Siqueiros was one of "Los Tres Grandes" (the three giants) of the form, but the Communist Party leader and union organizer was considered the most radical.

Fortunately for the art world, Siqueiros's Pandora Gold Bead - K06 exploits prevented him from entirely abandoning the "bourgeois" and "elite" practice of easel painting. Between 1930 and his death in 1974, Mexico's most talented Stalinist created more than 800 such works, many of which he completed during the months and years he spent in prison or under house arrest.