Anyway, Anyhow

A raw wild visual gumbo to accompany the sick sonic stew of Gonerfest, organized by Goner Records
Bruce Lee Webb
Featuring the artwork of Tim Kerr (Austin, TX), Bruce Webb (Waxahatchie, TX), John Henry Toney (Seale, AL), Butch Anthony (Seale, AL), Timmy Lampinen (Detroit, MI)

TIM KERR
Tim moved to Austin in 1974 to attend The University of Texas at Austin and there he earned a degree in painting and photography. While in the art department, he studied under famed photographer Garry Winogrand and was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for his work.

Tim is also well-known for his slashing guitar work in seminal punk bands The Big Boys, Poison 13, Monkeywrench, Lord High Fixers and more.

His artwork combines social awareness with iconic figures
and searing images overlaid by inspirational quotes. He has been involved in many different scales, from murals to artwork on skateboards.

He recently exhibited in

http://www.timkerr.net/
http://juicemagazine.com/home/tim-kerr-art-show/
http://www.yalostudio.com/2014_04_01_archive.html

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BUTCH ANTHONY
Mr. Anthony has made up his own word, “intertwangleism,” a label he paints on a lot of his pieces, which he defined this way: “Inter, meaning to mix,” he said. “And twang, a distinct way of speaking. If I make up my own ‘ism,’ no one can say anything or tell me I’m doing it wrong.”

Butch’s art world contains sly reworkings of existing paintings, sculptures made of discarded metal and wood, and semi-apocryphal taxidermy all creating a unique voice that has charmed the art world from his native Alabama through New York City, London, and beyond.

Butch did a show in the Goner Store in 2004 which was a huge thrill for us. In the ten years since that show, Butch has become strangely sorta famous, but hasn’t changed a bit. A recent show at Yolo Gallery in Water Valley, MS was a sensation. We are thrilled to have him back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/garden/08doonanny.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.blackratprojects.com/artists/butchanthony
http://www.yalostudio.com/2013/03/anatomy-can-be-fun-new-work-by-butch.html
http://www.museumofwonder.com/

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JOHN HENRY TONEY
Mr. John Henry Toney grew up in Sandfort, Alabama and farmed all his life. He used to drive a tractor around Seale and plow up folk’s garden patches for them. One day he plowed up a turnip with a human face on it… His art career was born. He’s 83 years old and draws everyday.

http://www.museumofwonder.com/#slide3
http://www.garde-rail.com/artists/toney/index.html
http://rawvision.com/articles/love-and-water-art-john-henry-toney

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BRUCE LEE WEBB
Bruce Lee is the co-conspirator and co- creator of Webb Gallery in downtown Waxahachie, Texas. He loves hobo lore and train car graffiti. He is a researcher and collector by nature and is currently working on “As Above So Below -Art of the Fraternal Lodge” with co-author Lynne Adele, which will be published by UT Press in 2015.

Bruce recently curated and participated in the “Akin” exhibit of outsider and self-taught artists at Crosstown Arts.

http://www.webbartgallery.com/
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/03/spinning_a_webb_local_artist_a.php
http://www.croftartgallery.com/previousshows/brucewebb.html

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TIMMY LAMPINEN
Timmy, well-known in Goner circles as the the Human Eye / Timmy’s Organism / Clone Defects singer and guitar mangler, is also a 2010 Kresge Grant Arts award winner. As Timmy’s music strives for wild departures and maximum impact via spaced-out sounds, his artwork spreads the color of consciousness and fredom with righteous abandon. His album covers are some of the trippiest of anyone working in the medium today.

http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/fellowships/past-fellows/2010-fellows/timmy-lampinen/
http://larecord.com/interviews/2008/12/01/human-eye-yeah-i-drank-the-glitter-slime

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For more information see:
http://www.goner-records.com/gonerfest/gonerfest11-artshow.php
https://www.facebook.com/events/1443801609200425/

Akin

A group exhibition of outsider artists co-curated by Lauren Kennedy of Southfork Memphis and Julie & Bruce Webb of Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, Texas

Featuring sculpture, painting, and drawings by outsider artists working from the 1930s through today, the show aims to make connections among widely varying practices, perspectives and origins. Artists include self-taught California painter Esther Pearl Watson, Memphis sculptor Hawkins Bolden, and “Prophet” Royal Robertson from Louisiana, among others.

Akin also seeks to complement the major retrospective of sculptor Marisol, opening at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on June 14, through thoughtful associations and kinship.

Recent media:
Fredric Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal
Eileen Townsend, The Memphis Flyer

Opening reception music by Marcella René Simien and food by Hi-Cue

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Complementary programs: 


Billy Tripp’s Art Environment: Mindfield

Saturday, June 14

Meet at Crosstown Arts, 422 N. Cleveland, at 11 am; we will return by 4 pm.

Join us on a field trip to Billy Tripp’s art environment, “Mindfield” nearby in Brownsville, TN. “Mindfield” is a continually growing and expanding outdoor sculpture that Tripp has been working on for many years. This afternoon trip is an opportunity to more fully experience the relationships within the Akinexhibition on view at Crosstown Arts. We will stop for lunch at Helen’s BBQ after visiting the site. Group transportation will be available for a small fee. More details to come; please direct any questions to info@crosstownarts.org


Screening of Make

Wednesday, June 25 at 6:30 pm

430 N. Cleveland

Free admission

The documentary Make, by Scott Ogden, is an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike E. Morgan. All of these artists find their most powerful voice through art. Their interwoven stories bring together individuals whose worlds are as unique as their creations and explore why they are each consumed by their obsessive art making.


Image: Esther Pearl Watson, 2011, Courtesy of Webb Gallery