Nowhere can you feel the silliness (and yet cloying realness) of the term "outsider art" more distinctly than at the Outsider Art Fair, which, by its very nature, is an insiders' affair.
Marianne Schipaanboord with her artwork at the Een Nieuwe Wind booth (click to enlarge)
Andrea Joyce Heimer, “When I began wearing all black in the ninth grade my parents thought I was practicing witchcraft & became convinced I was part of a teenage coven on Cottonwood Street.” (2013), at Lindsay Gallery (click to enlarge)

Sabhan Adam, “Untitled” (2005), mixed media on canvas, at Polad-Hardouin Gallery

Peter Thomashow, “Wired” (2014), at Marlon Harris

Manual Bauman, “Lucha Libre Diarama” at the Pardee Collection

Works by Mary F. Whitfield at Galerie Bonheur

Mireille Delice, “Catastrophe de 12 Janvier” (c. 2010), Vodou banner (sequins and beads on fabric), at Indigo Arts Gallery

Angkasapura, “Untitled” (c. 2012), mixed media on found paper, at Henry Boxer Gallery

Detail of John Brill’s “Every Boy’s Dream” (2013) at Kent Fine Art

Paul Laffoley, “Copenhagen Cat Paradox” (2008), at Kent Fine Art

Untitled works by Susan Janow (both 2014) at Creative Growth Art Center

Work by Jerry the Marble Faun in the foreground and Larry Calkins in the background, at Jackie Klempay

Embellished books by Martha Cruz at Healing Arts Initiative

Drawings by Derrick Alexis Coard at Healing Arts Initiative

Solange Knopf, “Women and Birds (red)” (2012), colored pencil on paper, and “Spirit Codex No. 18″ (2013), acrylic, colored pencil, and graphite on paper, at Cavin-Morris Gallery

View of the fair

The booth of Rebecca Hossack Gallery