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Self-taught artist carefully recreates Philadelphia's notable buildings

Little Athens of America

Self-taught artist carefully recreates Philadelphia's notable buildings

The New York Outsider Art Fair, which displays “Self-Taught Art, Art Brut, and Outsider Art,” will bring Kambel Smith’s hand-made sculptures to the public for the first time. Smith, a self-taught artist, has carefully created models of major buildings of Philadelphia.

The models, while highly detailed, are made from cardboard and other materials salvaged from the trash. Many of them are large, carefully constructed objects in their own right. According to the Outsider Art Fair, “[t]hese large-scale works now require more than half the family’s home in Germantown, Pennsylvania, to store.”

The 27th New York Outsider Art Fair will take place January 17-20 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City.


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