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Perhaps Outsider Art is the ultimate folk art.
After all, its creators typically are untrained and often unheralded in their lifetimes.
An exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art aims to change that anonymity for some artists from Florida.
“An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection of Florida Outsider Art,” on view until Sept. 5, is the most comprehensive exhibition of its kind. The museum says this is the first time a museum has presented this definitive group of artists with an exhibition of this size and scope.
Many of these artists created obsessively to escape from their worlds that were often full of deep conflict and personal struggles.
Beginning in the early 1990s, photographer Gary Monroe drove throughout Florida for more than a decade — from Key West to Jacksonville to Pensacola — on a mission to find what he calls “Florida’s renegade artists.”
Three decades later, he has gathered more than 1,000 works by outsider artists. More in link.