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Albert Louden (British, 1942)
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Albert Louden
Magic carousel
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Albert Louden
Street Conversation 1998
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Biography |
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Born in Blackpool |
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Although he toyed over the years with higher mathematics and left-wing politics, from about 1962 Louden decided to concentrate on art.<.br>It was Victor Musgrave, the co-organiser of the Outsiders show at the Hayward Gallery, who discovered Louden in 1979.
In 1985 Louden had a sell-out exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
He exhibited internationally having a solo show in New York at Rosa Esman Gallery in 1986 and his further shows included Boundary Gallery in 1990.
Louden’s paintings comprise of heavily distorted figures in urban settings and situations observed with wit, using a unique palette.
His work can be found in many private and public collections in Britain and abroad, including the Arts Council and Collection L’Art Brut, Lausanne.
The Baltimore Museum of Visionary Art are about to show 30 works by Louden in one of their new wings. |
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Exhibitions |
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2001 Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, USA |
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2001 Jean Pierre Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg, France |
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2001 'The Anthony Petullo Collection', John Michael Kohler Arts Center |
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2001 'Private Worlds: Outsider and Visionary Art', Orleans House Gallery |
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2000 Jean Pierre Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg, France |
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2000 'Outsider Inside', Boundary Gallery, London |
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2000 'Albert Louden Out Loud', American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA |
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1999 'Love, Error and Arrows', American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA |
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1999 Musée Anzac. Paris, France |
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1998 'Art Unsolved', 'The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
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1998 Boundary Gallery, London |
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1997 Angel Road Gallery, Nottingham |
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1997 'Het Formaat', Stadshof Museum, Zwolle, The Netherlands |
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1996 Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, USA |
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1996 Instinct Gallery, Milwaukee, USA |
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1996 Galerie del Grababo, Santiago, Chile |
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1995 'Outstanding Outsider Art', Marion Harris, Connecticut, USA |
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1995 'Three Outsiders', Belgrave Gallery, London |
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1992 'The Magic of Naïve', Sonje Museum of Contemporar Art, Kyongju, Korea |
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1991 Malmo Museum, Konstall, Sweden |
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2000 'Recent works', Whitford Fine Art, London |
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