Forrest Bess
“Outliers and American Vanguard Art”
Self-taught, modern primitive, visionary, folk artist: for decades, the field of outsider art has been mired in debate over its terminology.
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Forrest Bess and Joan Snyder at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
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The Living Dead: Why Are Curators Putting Deceased Artists in Contemporary Art Shows?
The peculiar appearance of Forrest Bess, the “pseudo-hermaphrodite” painter, at the 2012 Whitney Biennial still stands out in my memory. The eleven paintings were vivid and haunting, and…
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Forrest Bess
Forrest Bess's canvases quiver with colors, textures, shapes and symbols that are at once profoundly familiar and deeply mysterious.
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Best of Forrest Bess, Via Robert Gober & Menil
Menil Collection surveys brooding work of Forrest Bess, painter and visionary
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