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The Nasher Museum Presents Outsider Art From its Collection

artwork: Annie Lucas - "Four Beasts at the Throne of Heaven", 1994 - Acrylic, thread, glitter on canvas - 25" x 31" - Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. On view in "Angels, Devils & the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection" from December 10th until July 8th 2012.


Durham, North Carolina.- The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is pleased to present “Angels, Devils and the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection” on view from December 10th through July 8th 2012. This installation of works from the permanent collection will complement the upcoming exhibition “Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy”. Both Calder and the artists in this exhibition share the practice of incorporating found objects and unusual materials in their work. Outsider Art demonstrates the innovative strategies and imaginative visual languages that result when Outsider artists follow their irrepressible artistic impulses. It includes gifts and promised gifts from Bruce Lineker, New York, and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami.