| About the Exhibition
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery is pleased to announce the first
exhibition of the gallery's 2008 - '09 season, Castle
in Context. As a counterpoint to norms of categorization
and distinction, the exhibition places James Castle in the
context of art historical discourse by enabling the viewer
to connect the artist's soot-and-spit drawings and found-object
constructions with the work of contemporaries, many of whose
practices were (or are) firmly rooted in the art world. Castle,
who was born profoundly deaf and never learned to speak, read,
or sign, remained isolated from these mainstream communities.
This exhibition aims to complement the James Castle retrospective
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the first comprehensive
museum exhibition of the artist's work.
About the Gallery
The Fleisher/Ollman Gallery originally opened in 1952 as the
Janet Fleisher Gallery. One of the first shows was for a self-taught
artist, Samuel Granatt. Between the years of 1952 and 1970,
the gallery exhibited many forms of Folk Art including traditional
and non-traditional American, as well as European naives and
visionaries. In 1970, the gallery began its focus on American
self-taught artists.
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