The Strange Southern Art Hiding in My Warehouse

Over the years I've filled my warehouse with objects that I couldn't quite explain at the time, and today I'm pulling six of them back out to see what they reveal when they're placed together. This isn't meant to be a history of Southern folk art or a guide to the "correct" labels. It's one Southern artist looking closely at the work of other artists whose decisions continue to pull me back. Along the way we look at artists who painted with earth gathered from Alabama, transformed personal tragedy into powerful imagery, covered a house in prophecy, built strange worlds from wood and found objects, and even created artwork for the official 30th anniversary of Nas's Illmatic. Artists featured: • Jimmy Lee Sudduth • Mose Tolliver (Mose T.) • "Prophet" Royal Robertson • Ford William • Charles V. Bennett (The Tennessee Wolfman) • Estéban Whiteside If you enjoy forgotten objects, Southern culture, self-taught artists, outsider art, collecting, and the stories hidden inside ordinary things, you're in the right place. I'd love to know: Which piece would you want to live with for a year... and which one would you never want hanging in your house? #SouthernFolkArt #FolkArt #OutsiderArt #SelfTaughtArt #JimmyLeeSudduth #MoseTolliver #RoyalRobertson #FordWilliam #TennesseeWolfman #EstebanWhiteside #ArtCollection #Warehouse #KyleOnEverything