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Four Guys

I’ve decided to try something new today. I’m calling it “Four Guys.”

Marcel Dzama

  • Born in 1975.
  • Canadian born, living in NYC.
  • Small-scale ink and watercolor drawings. 

David Shrigley

  • Born in 1968.
  • English born, living in Glasglow.
  • “Outsider Art” aka Art Brut, Rough Art, Raw Art.

Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship)

  • Born in 1982.
  • Born and based in New York.
  • Syracuse-originated newspaper comic strip named after a Maine church.

Henry Darger

  • Born in 1892.
  • American born, janitor in Chicago.
  • Famous for his posthumously published manuscript, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, and the hundreds of (Outsider Art) drawings and watercolors that accompanied the story and illustrated “horrific brutality displayed against children.”


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