Bob Mix is a self-taught metal sculptor. His work experience in commercial metal fabricating informs his whimsical and experimental approach to art-making. Several of his sculptures can be seen in front yards around Great Bend, and he was commissioned by the local zoo to bring the sculptural skeletons of prehistoric creatures to the zoo’s collection. […]
A 28-year-old graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, in 1988 Ricky Boscarino bought a 600-square-foot run-down cabin with an outhouse on six acres of over-grown woods in rural northwestern New Jersey, “as soon as I laid eyes on the house, I knew this would be the place I spend the rest of my […]
The primary designer and builder of Jesus Gospel Park refers to himself as ‘the Old Cowboy’ . . . “I’m just a nobody,” and on the Park’s official video Sherrie Childers is identified only as “the Old Cowboy’s wife.” The Park has 85 text plaques, several press-button audio boxes, and yard crosses and laminated words […]
A combination outdoor collection display and art environment installation, John Dilandro has been working on his site since 2012. Along Schuenemann Rd on either side of the driveway, extensive strings of lights and spotlights come on and begin to pulse at dusk. John seems to have a special fondness for glass: electrical insulators, plates, and […]
As of 2025, Charles Wince’s Mother Russia Meltdown remains in progress. It fills one of Wince’s bedroom walls – he wakes up to it daily and often sees refinements that need to be made. Teeming with symbolism and discrete cultural events (such as the Kennedy assassination), the painting seems to vividly chronicle in fine detail […]
A now retired repairman of complex machinery with no art background, the transformation of Gene Dillard’s ordinary house in Durham, North Carolina began in the early 2000’s.
The Kohler Foundation funded the restoration of Prophet Isaiah Robertson’s distressed site. B. R. Howard Conservation removed all the rocks, stones and wood structures from the site. In the spring through early fall ’23, they re-installed PVC replicas of all the wood structures. All the original stones were re-painted and returned to their original locations. […]
One of the most famous American self-taught artists and art environments, Leonard Knight and Salvation Mountain appeared in documentaries and commercial movies such as Into the Wild (2007) and Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004). The site which suffered severe flood damage and overall deterioration after Leonard’s departure for health reasons in 2001 […]
Isaiah Zagar earned an art degree from Pratt Institute in the early 1960’s, but the primary – and life-long – inspiration from his student days came from his visit to Clarence Schmidt’s House of Mirrors, a sprawling architectural assemblage in Woodstock, NY. Zagar, a ‘trained’ artist, has been unusually strongly influenced by the work of […]
Bernard Gore is a partially disabled Purple Heart decorated Vietnam veteran self-taught artist living near Atlanta, Georgia. He works daily on paintings, assemblage sculptures, and carved wood relief sculptures. Formerly a part time preacher, his often brightly patterned subjects are both biblical and secular: ranging from a festive lynch mob to Elton John’s Rocket Man […]
Drawings and underground comics by James Beoddy dating from approximately the early 1970’s to 2015. All artworks ©James Beoddy estate.
Paintings by James Beoddy dating from approximately the early 1970’s to the early 2000’s. All paintings ©James Beoddy estate.
James Beoddy recalled that he began to draw when he was about four or five years old, and despite having attended college for a couple of years, he was primarily a self-taught artist. Beginning in 2000, he taught himself to paint in anaglyphic and ChromaDepth® 3-D. A longtime passionate advocate for freedom of expression, Beoddy’s […]