Since age ten, James Phillips had collected over 16,000 antlers. When he wasn’t hunting antlers in the spring and fall, he took daily trail walks and has authored three books of his observations. Jim is proud to have not purchased any, or killed any animal while amassing his antler collection. He found and manually carried-out […]
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 […]
In 2006 Gary Brewer, once a high steel been construction worker, now a independent carpentry contractor in San Augustine, Texas started to build a deck over his modest-sized downtown home across from the courthouse square. With no backyard and a fearless fondness for high places, he’s built himself an escape into nature without leaving home. […]
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.
Often self-taught ‘artists’ don’t think of themselves as, or like to be called ‘artists’. They may not produce any ‘for sale’ art objects, their work may be too personal, or it may be intended to carry religious messages from God (for which they accept no personal credit). Many think of themselves as being too unskilled […]
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 […]
Since age ten, James Phillips had collected over 16,000 antlers. When he wasn’t hunting antlers in the spring and fall, he took daily trail walks and has authored three books of his observations. Jim is proud to have not purchased any, or killed any animal while amassing his antler collection. He found and manually carried-out […]
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 […]
Leroy Gonzales, the self-appointed mayor of Golden, New Mexico gives free tours of his outdoor museum to the local history of gold-mining. His roadside attraction near the southern end of Rt 14 (the Turquoise Trail) not far from Albuquerque, includes a mine shaft, a wall of pre-decent miner’s possessions, a cantina, John Wayne’s girlfriend, plus […]
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 […]
Inspired by visions that “God sends to me,” Brenda Davis filled the walls and ceilings of her double-wide mobile home in rural Alabama with painted depictions of boldly abstracted flowers and birds, multi-colored fronds, primeval jungle royalty, calligraphic-like seals, insects, and painterly swirls. Purchased in 2008, it became Brenda’s fantastical refuge from a troubled life […]
Tammy Lange is currently building an art environment in her new location outside of Aztec, New Mexico, and several new works have appeared since my fist visit in the summer of 2021. Tammy requested that the location of her site not be made public. Tammy works with various found materials, including skulls, antlers, and twisted […]