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Information: MARIPOSA – Unusual Art from Distant Places, was founded by Beate Echols 1989. It specializes in the works of mostly self-taught artists, both known and anonymous, predominantly from Latin America or of Latin American/Caribbean origin, but also from North America, Europe and elsewhere. Our collection includes folk art (paintings, sculptures, textiles, masks and puppets and more), art brut, visionary art and Latin American devotional art of Christian, African, indigenous and syncretic religions, from santos and nichos to Candomblé iron sculptures and Haitian and Santería art. Our sacred art portfolio includes a large collection of Latin American santos and nichos from (mostly) Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere.
Over the years we have collected a wide range of folk art forms from different parts of Latin America, notably from Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil, but also from other parts of the Americas. We feature works by internationally famous folk artists, unique pieces by lesser known masters, and many works whose origins or makers are anonymous, which in no means diminishes their power as great, one-of-a-kind pieces of folk art. More recently we have tapped into the riches and diversity of Cuban art. We showcase a variety of Cuban artists, both trained and autodidacts, whose works frequently address themes related to the island’s African cultural heritage.
Beate Echols has written and lectured on art from the Americas and self-taught artists since 1995, both in New York City and elsewhere. From 1997 until 2004 she was on the teaching faculty of the Folk Art Institute at the American Folk Art Museum where she taught courses on Latin American and Latino art, cultures and traditions. She has been a lender to major museums for exhibitions of works by self-taught and visionary artists (such as the American Visionary Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and the San Antonio Museum of Art) and worked on a number of curatorial projects. She was the sole curator of Saints, Sinners, Sacred Spaces - Devotional Art from Latin America at the Mandeville Gallery of Union College in Schenectady, NY in 2000, and Miracles in the Backlands - Aspects of Africa in Brazilian Ex-Voto Sculpture at the Art Galleries of Ramapo College in 2005. She has written articles for Raw Vision Magazine #20 and Raw Vision #47, the Folk Art Messenger (#61), and other publications.
Email: beate@mariposa-arts.net
Phone: (212) 799 5929
Mail: 140 West End Ave #30C, New York NY 10023
Gallery by appointment.
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