Jon Sarkin

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A dense hand-lettered passage built around Macbeth's "out, out, brief candle" soliloquy, riffing on Shakespeare and improvising an anatomy ("his pons, his medulla oblongata") into a tragicomic… Available - $1,200 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale

"it was the kinda place where if a guy showed up with a bloody shirt he didn't ask questions, just have him sign the register and give him a key." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

A meditation on Constantin Brancusi, the sculptor's name and its initial letter repeated across the surface in obsessive variations, with allusions to Bird in Space. Available - $800 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale

"cypress = progress!!!" — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

A tree reduced to gesture, branching form with negative space carrying as much weight as line. Available - $1,400 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale

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Superman as recurring subject, his cowlick, cape, and chest emblem rendered in Sarkin's compulsive line. Available - $900 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale

"mahler's in the alley with his snakeskin boots & his rings, screamin' 'bout the gover'ment & tax evading things, but i am on the corner, with a spread sheet & a cup, wonderin' if time is plastic & if a down is up." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"time ta distill reality down to its essence, ta git down ta the nitty-gritty of observed perception! to manifest the unmanifest!" — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"all you need is love. love is all you need. all you love is need. all love is. love is." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

"i left my orb with the untidiness that comes with broken dishwashers, shoes that're too tight, unpaid + unpayable bills, a runny toilet, a cousin that keeps hitting me up, an icy & dangerous walkway, unmatched sox." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

A wall-scale goldfish on stretched canvas, Sarkin's recurring fish motif rendered at architectural size, built up from his signature gestural line, scribbled mark, and concentric eye forms. Available - $75,000 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale

"i awoke up to discover that some how i'd winded up as a passenger in a car ontop of a "hoodoo." on 2nd think, it wasn't almost surreal, it was totally, entirely, emphatically, ineffably, extremely, absolutely, and definitely surreal." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart

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Alphabet Series, Complete Set (A-Z) Full collection of 26 drawings, each 19x24". Permanent marker on heavyweight archival paper. Signed. Available as a full set.  $36,400 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale

"i awoke & found myself in a desert. which bloody desert i wonder? gobi? sahara? negev? mongolia? utah? a postcard of the desert in egypt that a dr. weems is posting in brooklyn?" — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

A single tree rendered in Sarkin's signature direct line, the substrate's edge and surface left visible. Drawn on a recycled cardboard album sleeve. Available - $1,600 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale

"wm. "shakey" shakespeare: to be or not. to be that. is the question whether." — Jon Sarkin #jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut

A single bottle reduced to gesture and contour on a recycled cardboard album sleeve. Signed. Authenticated by The Jon Sarkin Estate. Available - $1,200 #JonSarkin #OutsiderArt #ArtForSale