| The Fleisher/Ollman Gallery opened in Philadelphia in 1952 as the Janet Fleisher Gallery. Over the course of the next four decades, the gallery established a reputation as one of the world’s premiere sources for self-taught art, defining the field and helping to develop major public and private collections of this once-marginalized group of artists. Fleisher/Ollman was among the first to mount major exhibitions of work by Henry Darger, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Bill Traylor, and Martin Ramirez, and we published early catalogues on James Castle, William Edmondson, and Joseph Yoakum. Since 1997, when John Ollman became the gallery's sole owner, emphasis has shifted toward the exhibition of contemporary artists who reflect the influence of the self-taught, such as Anthony Campuzano and Tristin Lowe. This revised curatorial mission—recently amended to remove from discourse entirely the “self-taught” label as a distinct entity—has become particularly relevant as many contemporary artists eschew the academic in favor of intuitive practice. In addition to our modern and contemporary interests (among them Joseph Cornell, H.C. Westermann, Ed Ruscha, and Alfred Jensen), the gallery continues to showcase the most significant American vernacular artists of the 20th Century, including the exclusive representation of Felipe Jesus Consalvos and the Philadelphia Wireman.
Artists at Fleisher/Ollman GalleryAnthony Campuzano, James Castle, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Robert Crumb, Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala, William Edmondson, William L. Hawkins, Tristin Lowe, Christina Ramberg, Annabeth Rosen, Paul Swenbeck, Takatomo Tomita, Bill Traylor, Horace Clifford Westermann, Ray Yoshida
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