Unglazed ceramic sculpture by Japanese artist Kazumi Kamae, 2014. Photo by Edward M. Gómez.

Art Brut from Japan: The International Context
Lecture    11 A.M.     8th Floor Dialogues
Edward Gomez will discuss the still-young, still-evolving field of art brut or outsider art as it has been developing in Japan in recent years and place it in the context of the already established, international art brut/outsider/self-taught art field.
 
At the same time, he will call attention to some other, broader tendencies in both the outsider/self-taught and the contemporary-art fields that have some influence or impact on what is happening in and emerging from Japan, again placing such developments in an international critical and art-historical context.

Edward M. Gómez is an arts journalist, critic and graphic designer. He is the senior editor of the London-based outsider-art magazine Raw Vision and the New York correspondent of the American magazine Art & Antiques. He has written and provided photography for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Art + Auction, Metropolis (U.S.A.) Folk Art Magazine, Hyperallergic, the Japan Times (Tokyo), Reforma (Mexico City), the Jamaica Observer (Kingston) and many other publications. He is the author or co-author of numerous books and exhibition catalogs, including, among others, Dictionnaire de la Civilisation Japonaise (Hazan Éditions, 1998), Yes: Yoko Ono (Abrams, 2000), The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation (American Folk Art Museum/Princeton University Press, 2003), Hans Krüsi (Iconofolio/Outsiders, 2006) and La Wilson: Five Decades (John Davis Gallery, 2013). His new book of stories (fiction), As Things Appear, will be published in the spring of 2015. He is based in New York and London.



Edward Gomez, arts journalist, critic and graphic designer
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