New Door Creative Spotlights Five Artists at

32nd Annual OUTSIDER ART FAIR, New York, 2024

BALTIMORE, MD – New Door Creative announces participation in the 32nd annual Outsider Art Fair, New York, 2024. February 29th through March 3rd, 2024. The Outsider Art Fair is dedicated to the celebration of non-traditional (a.k.a “self-taught,” “non-conformer,” “visionary,” etc.) artists. Originating in 1993, the fair continues to evolve. The 2024 fair showcases sixty international galleries and artists.   

New Door Creative will feature five painting artists in this year’s fair: mixed media portrait artist Morgan Monceaux, spirit painter Judy Tallwing, ’blackstraction’ artist Sheila Crider, and abstractionists Cheryl Edwards, and Greg Bridges. Each artist is inspired by their unique passion to create.  

These artists share a common denominator of multifaceted lives. Their varied life stories contradict the sensational biographies frequently associated with “outsider” profiles that too often eclipse the evidence of talent. Morgan Monceaux emerged from many passions, including opera. New Orleans natives Bridges and Monceaux draw from the richly diverse cultural experience of a city known for music, and spiritual/religious celebration that are remnants of the African diasporic traditions. Painter Sheila Crider began her creative life as a writer/poet.

Cheryl Edwards and Greg Bridges share a professional background in law. The life of Judy Tallwing (of Apache, Tewa, and African descent) has always been one of “making.” In her words: ‘We didn't call it art, we called it making things to sell along the road to help the family survive.’  

New Door Creative highlights these artists as creatives practicing not as “outsiders,” but as contrast within the mainstream parameters that define the dominant art culture. Their ‘need to create’ is not the result of challenge to reconcile lives of trauma and/or extreme social or mental isolation typically associated with certain historical presumptions of “outsider” artists. The collection of works reflects unique intellectual talents nurtured by informed inquiry and an authentic sense of curiosity; engaging specific concepts, cultural imprint, and the human experience.