Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial presents the exhibition An
Exact Spectacular – drawings by Ed Rogers and sculpture by Henry Turner
through Oct. 17.
The show is curated by writer, publisher and collector David Greenberger
of Greenwich, N.Y.
Included are about 120 drawings by Rogers and 49 small-scale wood
sculptures by Turner. Both are “self-taught” or
“outsider” artists with no formal artistic training; their
motivation and frame of reference differ considerably from that of
mainstream, schooled artists. Both men are in their 70s; Rogers lives in a
nursing home near Boston, and Turner was last known to be living in
Schenectady.
Greenberger, called a “stand-up sociologist” by Rolling
Stone magazine, has spent two decades recording observations and
comments by nursing home residents and publishing them in his magazine The
Duplex Planet. He also has been a commentator on National Public Radio's
All Things Considered.