Press Release

Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to present A Life in Art: Fifty Years of Collecting, an exhibition selected from the holdings of a lifelong New York City collector, which celebrates a philosophy of acquiring art which is at once as eclectic as it is personal. Assembled over the last five decades by its owner for sheer pleasure, the collection eschews all regard for name recognition or investment, and is united instead by its aesthetic integrity. What appears to be a fixation on particular artists is a personal journey; a collector’s in-depth exploration of those whose sensibilities have been a continuing source of inspiration and intrigue. Freed from the constraints of any single movement, period, or medium, the collection includes an array of work on paper, small oils, and textiles by many Outsider and anonymous artists, in addition to various utilitarian or decorative objects. Artists in the collection include Walter Anderson, Aaron Birnbaum, Edward Patrick Byrne, James Castle, Minnie Evans, Kaffe Fassett , Shirley Goldfarb, Morris Graves, Matthew Jacobs, Elaine Komorowski, Robert Kulicke, Justin McCarthy, Edmund Monsiel, Ray Parker, Pablo Picasso, Charles Rain, Ole Torson, Bill Traylor, Acharya Vyakul and Helen Miranda Wilson.