Opening Reception: An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Collection of Florida Outsider Art

Photographer Gary Monroe spent over a decade in search of Florida’s renegade Outsider artists amassing an expansive collection, which includes the over 80 objects by 44 self-taught artists in this exhibition. Against the odds, these artists obsessively painted or sculpted with an urgency to escape the conflict and struggle of daily life. Florida’s Outsider Artists are sure to leave viewers spellbound with their most authentic expressions.

Alyne Harris, Untitled, n.d., paint on canvas. Courtesy of the Monroe Family Collection