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.