OUTSIDER ART FAIR 2026 - CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY

OUTSIDER ART FAIR - NEW-YORK /CAVIN MORRIS GALLERY- N.Y 

(March 19 - March 22, 2026)

METROPOLITAN PAVILION

125 W 18TH ST

BOOTH B8

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Outsider Art Fair 2026 - Cavin Morris Gallery

CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY 

GALLERY ANNOUNCEMENT-2026 OUTSIDER ART FAIR 

Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to announce the theme for its 2026 stand at the New York Outsider Art Fair. We are calling our presentation PROTO-SURREALISM. Our focus in the gallery this last year has been the relationship between Surrealism, in particular the role of Andre Breton and his relationship with the artist and collector Jean Dubuffet.

We are basing our booth on what we are calling Proto-surrealism. The Surrealists were drawn to Dubuffet and his collection because they saw many of the qualities and intentions they were trying to incorporate into their own work by intellectual and deliberate means. These directions were the occult, dreams, madness, spiritualism including mediumship, visionary world building, automatic writing, children’s art, art perceived as ethnographic. 

The Surrealists were drawn to Art Brut, much as were the artists of the Primitivist movement borrowing from and exploring ancient and tribal cultures. For a time Breton added a few of his own discoveries and brought his interests in others to the Collection; artists still very much known to us today such as Hector Hyppolite, Victorian Sardou, Helene Smith, Augustine Lesage Victor Hugo etc. His framework of acceptance was wider than that of Dubuffet and he wasn’t the only Surrealist and artist taken by the interests in these undefined artists. Max Ernst, for example, passed on the seminal book by Hans Prinzhorn, “Artistry of the Mentally Ill” to Jean Arp, Dubuffet, Paul Eluard and Andre Breton.

Art History has had no problem accepting the Art Brut influences and inspirations of the Surrealists. But as with the cultural artists who created the “tribal” works that influenced the earlier and later primitivist modernists, it was the Western mainstream art world that received the attention and art world legitimacy rather than the artists included under the Art Brut umbrella and beyond. This has not changed much to this day and this sad anomaly became the underlying motivation for our Proto-Surrealism concentration.

The Non-mainstream artists of Art Brut and beyond were and are making their work independently of the infrastructure of the Contemporary canon. They were never a movement. They had no manifestos other than the raw powers of their very individual voices. The Surrealists were intellectually motivated to tap into this power. The Proto-Surreal artists (This is a description , not a definition) were already focusing on their own creations, following no dialog with mainstream art history in their processes.. For the most part they created for themselves, for the spirits, or for the Moral, physical and spiritual balance of their cultural communities. The work is outside time. Their art was used as source material for a Western influenced art movement, and, except for Dubuffet and a few likeminded others, they were excluded from the world arena through neglect and the ever present hegemonies of art world gentrification of non-Western cultures. 

The creation of this art has never stopped. It is still the real Surreal . It is still copied and exploited and excluded from the academic roundtables of world art. Its truths remain ancient and universal and simultaneously Contemporary. 

We are not trying to recreate Dubuffet’s vision in this booth and in the exhibitions we feature at the gallery. Instead we are offering a very small curated cross-section of a huge part of living Art. These are the artists do naturally what the Surrealists so gloriously sought to do in their own explorations.  

The artists we will show are Angkasapura , Alireza 

Asbahi (CC), Ilija "Bosilj" Bašičević , JJ Cromer,Caroline Demangel, Solange Knopf, Davood Koochaki, Tomo Kōya, M’onma, Jean-pierre Nadau, Izabella Ortiz, Sandra Sheehy, Imam Sucahyo, Gregory an Maanen, Steve Wilson, Joseph Yoakum and Anna Zemankova.

These artists are working in the same ways they and the generations before them always have. They were the Surrealists before the Surrealists. They are oneiric Warriors. 

Metropolitan Pavilion,

125 W 18th St., New York, NY 10011

Avant

-première VIP et presse :

jeudi 19 mars 2026, de 12h à 18h

Vernissage :

jeudi 19 mars 2026, de 18h à 21h

Ouverture au public :

vendredi 20 mars 2026, de 11h à 20h

Samedi 21 mars 2026, de 11h à 20h

Dimanche 22 mars 2026, de 11h à 18h

Outsider Art Fair

CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY

Solange Knopf 

"The Inner Darkness" No. 7,2025 

Colored pencil on black paper

51 x 51 inches

129.5 x 129.5 cm

SoK 123

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Solange Knopf / Dessins Cosmos 2019
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Atelier Richelieu

Outsider Art Fair 2018 / Cavin Morris Gallery - N.Y.C

Prochaine exposition collective - Outsider Art Fair 2018 / Cavin Morris Gallery - N.Y.C

Du 18 au 21 Janvier 2018

Metropolitan Pavillon 

New-York

 Solange Knopf  /2017-- Aquarelle sur papier 2017 - 74.9 x 58.4 cm

Cavin-Morris Gallery

Outsider Art Fair

                                                                       

Revue " L'OEIL" - Octobre 2017 n°705

  " L'oeil" Octobre 2017 - N° 705

Solange  Knopf - Dessin"Eolia" 2016

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               The Story Of An Art Fair Whose Work Was Never Meant To Be Sold

Solange Knopf - Big Bang  - 2014

Two Group Show - " Resist "(January 12, 2017 - February 18, 2017) and "YAMINISM ": ABELAM MASKS OF SUSTENANCE AND SPIRIT (December 1, 2016 - February 25, 2017) & Cavin - Morris Gallery - N.Y.C

Exposition "RESIST" Cavin - Morris Gallery - NY

they resist time 

they resist exploiters

they resist definitions

they resist pigeonholing 

they resist history written by the victors

they resist auction houses

they resist artspeak 

they resist racism 

they resist totalitarianism

they resist revisionist art history 

they resist time

they resist being forced to be negatively funky

they resist art world gentrification 

they resist art dealers

they resist curators 

they resist critics

they resist being stereotyped 

they resist being profiled

they resist political correctness (the real bad kind) 

they resist art world politics 

they resist art world sexism 

they resist bad governments

they resist time

"Iboga" 2014 Techn. mixtes sur papier kraft 49,5 x 69,9 cm

"Resist' will feature Caroline Demangel, Izabella Ortiz, Eric Derochette, Davood Koochaki, Ilya Natarevich, Anna Zemankova, Sandra Sheehy, John Devlin, Joseph Hofer, Kashinath Chawan, M'onma, Christine Sefolosha, Herman Bossert, Sylvain Corentin, Tony Pedemonte, Guillaume Couffignal, Solange Knopf, Ghyslaine and Sylvain Staelens and others.

"YAMINISM ": ABELAM MASKS OF SUSTENANCE AND SPIRIT (December 1, 2016 - February 25, 2017)

 Solange Knopf "Iboga "Crayons de couleurs sur papier Kraft - 2015 - 69,5 x 49,7 cm

Solange Knopf  "Mandragore" Crayons de couleurs sur papier Kraft
69,5 x 49,7 cm


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Solange Knopf  2016 - "O.V.N.I " 56 x 74.5 cm

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The-smither-collection-at-the-menil-solange-knopfs-spirit-codex-no-14 + Catalogue d'exposition " As Essential as dreams",

                              The-smither-collection-at-the-menil-solange-knopfs-spirit-codex-no-14

                            

Menil collection

 Catalogue d'exposition " As Essentiel as Dreams"

Images de l'exposition "As Essential as Dreams": Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither - The Menil Collection - Houston - Texas - U.S.A

Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester

Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester

Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester

Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester

Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester

Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester

Courtesy of Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston. Photos: Paul Hester

As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither - The Menil Collection - Houston - Texas - U.S.A

J'ai le grand plaisir de vous informer que suite à la donation de la collection Stéphanie et John Smither, 3 de mes dessins entrent au musée de la collection Menil à Houston - Texas - U.S.A 
Ceux ci seront exposés au mois de juin prochain lors d'une exposition dédiée à celle - ci et intitulée " As Essentiel As Dreams ".
A cette occasion , un catalogue sera publié.
The Menil Collection "As Essential as Dreams ": Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither

"As Essential as Dreams "

As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither

La Menil Collection

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Solange Knopf - "Défloration" - 2015 crayons de couleurs sur papier kraft

"Solange Knopf changed Cavin-Morris Gallery. I don't say this facetiously. Just before we saw her work for the first time we were being drowned in a sea of false horror-vacuui and cultural appropriations that bore no relationship or knowledge of the cultures they were so freely quoting from; mainly Vodun. We wanted some new work in the gallery but not at the expense of the visionary content we have always tried to find and expose. We didn't believe the real thing had disappeared with the commercialization of the market...how could it? Spirit never dies. Then one day I saw a small drawing by Solange Knopf online that was made over a page from a book of decadent poetry. It struck us immediately and we contacted her and immediately felt the vast deep pool of her consciousness, this incredible mix of pain and insight, wonder and ineffable joy. Those drawings were small. Some time later her first large drawings arrived and we were home. Hers is a mind that floats through this word capturing like no other the decadent sensuality of temptation and redemption. This drawing is one from that most recent series. She, like Sefolosha and Zemankova have pushed the field to a place few female artists, trained or untrained, have gone before...Her impact on the field will only grow greater as scholars catch up to those whose work in this field is most authentic rather than generic." 

Randall Morris Octobre 2015
Copyright Randall Morris
Cavin-Morris-Spotlight

6 SELF-TAUGHT WOMEN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW " Priscilla Frank - Huffington Post -

                                                "The Lack Of Women In Non-Mainstream Art" 

                                                           Huffington Post - Art & Culture

" Mandragore" 2014 - Techn mixtes sur papier kraft - 69,9 x 49,5 cm

" d'RAW " Exhibition - The center for intuitive and outsider art - Chicago - U.S.A

- Group Show : dRAW -Intuit: The center for intuitive and outsider art  -Chicago - U.S;A

  September 11, 2015 - January 3, 2016

   Curated by Jan Petry

The center for intuitive and outsider art

Behind the darkness n°37

Catalogue "d'RAW"

SPIRITED WOMEN: DRAWING DOWN FIRE - Prochaine exposition collective - Group Show -- Cavin - Morris Gallery -du 17 Octobre au 28 novembre 2015

Cavin -Morris Galerie

Prochaine  une femme de conjure qui a exprimé aspects spirituels importants de sa culture à des figures totémiques impérieuses et dangereuses. Amalia est un chamane parmi le petit groupe Seri indien sur la mer de Cortez dans le nord du Mexique. Anna Zemánková  

fait des dessins intenses et alambiquées d'organismes du jamais vu sur Terre. Solange Knopf fait des dessins incantatoires h psyché ythical afin de guérir et équilibrer son ainsi que d'autres. Artiste ojibway Aube Walden repousse les limites de
la vannerie contemporaine en observant la façon dont certains oiseaux dans les forêts autour de sa maison obsessionnelle ligne et tisser leurs nids perpétuer une forme de sculpture axée sur la nature. Les peintures de Christine Sefolosha véhiculent une langue de rêve informé par son
résidences suisses africaine et, une poésie visuelle qui est complètement décollée dans le temps. Semone Robinson dit qu'elle art qu'elle considère tout son art pour être un don spirituel de Dieu.
Ce ne sont que quelques-unes des histoires dans Spirited femmes: Drawing Down incendie, un hommage à quelques-uns des artistes visionnaires montrant au Cavin-Morris Gallery. Les femmes sont des artistes qui travaillent loin de la raquette tonitruante de l'ordinaire, avec l'art qui est très personnelle dans l'intention, l'utilisant comme un langage pour communiquer avec le
non-monde matériel, que ce soit par la transe, la médiumnité, visions, expériences hors du corps , ou l'extase religieuse. Pour chaque artiste, faisant de ce travail a été et est un processus de survie inséparable de la vie quotidienne. Ce sont des femmes éclairés par de fortes feux créatifs individuels.

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Groupe Afficher: 17 octobre - 28 novembre 
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Outsider Fair 2015 - N.Y - Cavin Morris Gallery

                 

                                 OUTSIDER ART FAIR 2015 - CAVIN - MORRIS GALLERY - N.Y.

Women  2012 crayons de couleurs sur papier 180 x 75 cm

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Outsider Art Fair

January 29 - February 1, 2015
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