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" ... It’s an age-old question: what is art? When Hawkins Bolden, a black man born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1914, made scarecrows for the garden in his yard, it did not cross his mind that he was creating artworks. But when Scott Ogden, the owner of SHRINE gallery in New York, saw Bolden’s scarecrows in the early 1990s, he realized that they were objects so precious, and so aesthetically intelligent, they deserved to be in a gallery. “The fact that someone could develop creatively this style of assemblage objects without the intention or awareness of art at all,” says Ogden. “It totally shifted my perspective of what art could be.” ... "
" ... Scott Ogden, the owner of SHRINE, a gallery devoted to outsider and self-taught art, curated “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning,” one of three exhibitions hosted at Shin Gallery on the Lower East Side as part of the fair. The exhibition, which takes its name from a traditional gospel blues song, features African-American artists from the Deep South, including Bill Traylor, Thornton Dial, Mary T. Smith and Hawkins Bolden. Many of the artists have received considerable attention from the art world in recent years — Bill Traylor was given a solo exhibition at David Zwirner in 2019, for example. But what makes them so compelling to viewers, Ogden says, is that the art was created, in most cases, purely for self-fulfillment. Mary T. Smith, for example, populated her garden with her creations, which she made using materials she found at the dump, in an effort to ease her loneliness. And Hawkins Bolden, who was blinded in a series of accidents, created sculptures that functioned as actual scarecrows. ... "