Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists
Attend the American Folk Art Museum exhibit, recognizing the most historically significant figures in Outsider Art, of the last hundred years.
We’re proud to share that the exhibit features the work of Nicole Appel, who is supported through AHRC NYC’s Day Services and Camping programs, and who graduated from AHRC NYC Middle / High School.
Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists provides an innovative focus on artistic self-representations of the twentieth century as well as contemporary works, addressing for the first time how formally untrained artists have identified, imagined, and depicted themselves as “capital-A Artists.” Examining methods of artistic self-fashioning, including self-portraiture, signature pieces, and depictions of alter egos, the exhibition takes a critical approach to the historical formulation of the “self-taught artist” in the United States, from the first half of the twentieth century to present time. A tightly curated selection of 90 artworks, primarily drawn from the American Folk Art Museum collection, the exhibition includes photographs, artists’ notebooks and videos, as well as prime examples of drawings, paintings, and sculptures—many of them recent or rarely seen acquisitions.