Outsider art, since its conception by Jean Dubuffet and Roger Cardinal, has had a complicated relationship with the many disparate and marginalized communities that it has come to represent. The developmentally disabled community is no exception tothis limitation. While the recognition of work by artists of different abilities is important, the other-ing of any artist […]

Art collector and dealer Carl Hammer first met Gregory Warmack in 1983 when he entered an abandoned home on the South Side of Chicago that was hosting the artist’s work. At the head of the tour was a placard that read “Welcome to the World of Mr. Imagination,” the name Warmack adopted for himself. It […]