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UNITED STATES / New York: A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art
by Modem
© Modem

until Tuesday December 31 2019

American Folk Art Museum
T : +1 (212) 595 9533
2 Lincoln Sq - Columbus ave btw 65th and 66th St
10019 New York
United States



A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art is dedicated to exploring the interconnection between gift-giving practices in the United States and self-taught art through a selection of works from the museum’s collection. Self-taught art—an inherent expression of its maker’s views—complicates standard gift-giving dynamics by presenting a one-of-a-kind artwork instead of an everyday commodity.
Made between the late eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, the works on view speak of their self-taught origins through their immediate and personal nature. They show that, at its best, giving a work of art is giving a piece of yourself.
Exhibition curator: Steffi Ibis Duarte, assistant curator, Self-Taught Genius Gallery

A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art
From July 22, 2019 –December 31, 2019

© Modem