Alabama. Born 1951
Large scale abstract metal sculpture and painting
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1959 New Orleans, Louisiana - 2004. Known for: Mod naive urban genre.
Roy Ferdinand was a self-taught artist who chronicled street life in New Orleans' impoverished African-American neighborhoods for fifteen years, documenting its violent subculture and making... Read full biography
Roy Ferdinand was a self-taught artist who chronicled street life in New Orleans' impoverished African-American neighborhoods for fifteen years, documenting its violent subculture and making portraits of residents who had no choice but to share these mean streets. Ferdinand, who compared himself to... Read full biography
Roy Ferdinand was a self-taught artist who chronicled street life in New Orleans' impoverished African-American neighborhoods for fifteen years, documenting its violent subculture and making portraits of residents who had no choice but to share these mean streets. Ferdinand, who compared himself to a battlefield sketch artist, worked in ink markers, colored pencils and children's watercolors on poster board. His style, with its bodies slightly out of proportion, multiple vanishing points, and... Read full biography
Roy Ferdinand was a self-taught artist who chronicled street life in New Orleans' impoverished African-American neighborhoods for fifteen years, documenting its violent subculture and making portraits of residents who had no choice but to share these mean streets. Ferdinand, who compared himself to a battlefield sketch artist, worked in ink markers, colored pencils and children's watercolors on poster board. His style, with its bodies slightly out of proportion, multiple vanishing points, and tilted buildings, has been described as a metaphor for New Orleans in the 1980s and 1990s, when the crack epidemic raged and the city had the country's highest murder rate. Ferdinand was represented in New Orleans by Barrister's Gallery in his... Read full biography
Roy Ferdinand was a self-taught artist who chronicled street life in New Orleans' impoverished African-American neighborhoods for fifteen years, documenting its violent subculture and making portraits of residents who had no choice but to share these mean streets. Ferdinand, who compared himself to a battlefield sketch artist, worked in ink markers, colored pencils and children's watercolors on poster board. His style, with its bodies slightly out of proportion, multiple vanishing points, and tilted buildings, has been described as a metaphor for New Orleans in the 1980s and 1990s, when the crack epidemic raged and the city had the country's highest murder rate. Ferdinand was represented in New Orleans by Barrister's Gallery in his lifetime. His prodigious body of work is held in private collections, galleries, and museums across the country.
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Mississippi. 1922 - 2003
Folk carver-fanciful images, religion
Florida. 1887 - 1979
Naive wood carving
Mississippi. 1913 - 1994
Naive figure-genre painting, carvings
Virginia. 1915 - 2000
Naive figure, outsider art, murals
New York. Born 1930
Naive voodoo-figure-object
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Kentucky. 1906 - 1990
Folk art, naive painting and sculpture, bird and birdhouse sculpture, airplanes
New York, Michigan / Israel. Born 1931
Naive religio-historical views, folk art painting
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Florida, Ohio. 1908 - 1986
Naive figure painting
Illinois. 1894 - 1989
Naive religio-historical carvings
Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
Georgia. 1928 - 2005
Naive figure
Kentucky. 1905 - 1998
Biblical theme carved folk art figures, decorative and utilitarian objects
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
North Carolina. 1904 - 1998
Naive sculpture
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Alabama. 1923 - 2010
Naive religious vision
United States. Born 1962
Paintings-folk art
Alabama. 1908 - 1995
Naive figure, multiple portrait
Louisiana. 1936 - 1997
Naive figure-women
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Georgia, Ohio. 1938 - 1997
Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Alabama. 1934 - 1985
Naive ethnic figure
Mississippi. 1911 - 1997
Naive sculptor
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
Georgia. Born 1966
Naive, folk art painting
Alabama. 1930 - 2004
Painting/ sculpture
Georgia. 1945 - 2009
Naive, folk art painting