![]() ![]() This catalog will be available in the Hallie Ford Museum of Art store by mid-September for $17.95. Presenting the two exhibitions in tandem helps place Childers’ work within a larger outsider art framework.Ī 64-page full color hardcover catalog, titled Russell Childers: Oregon Outsider, includes an essay by Bucci that tells Childers' life story and discusses the evolution of his artwork from the 1940s to the 1990s. “Strange and Wonderful” features the work of 30 artists from across the US. This exhibition will overlap with “Strange and Wonderful: American Folk Art from the Volkersz Collection,” opening September 17 and continuing through Decemin the museum’s Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. “We are thrilled to be able to organize this exhibition and bring this important research into the public domain, giving visitors an opportunity to get to know one of Oregon’s most important self-taught artists,” says Hallie Ford Museum of Art director John Olbrantz. Childers’ handmade tool chest will also be on view. The works are largely autobiographical in nature and depict family, friends, historical figures and animals, as well as memories of Childers’ childhood home in Wasco County, Oregon and his time at Fairview Hospital. The exhibition is the first retrospective and largest exhibition to date of the work of self-taught Oregon woodcarver Russell Childers (1915-1998), who spent 39 years institutionalized at Oregon Fairview Home in Salem.Ĭurated by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art collection curator, Jonathan Bucci, the exhibition presents 25 carvings. ![]() Russell Childers: Oregon Outsider opens July 30 in the Hallie Ford Museum of Art Study Gallery and continues through October 23, 2016. Russell Childers: Oregon Outsider July 30 – OctoStudy Gallery ![]()
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