Presented by: THE PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY and STEPHEN ROMANO GALLERY October 24 – December 21, 2024 The first exhibition of Shonberg’s work in Los Angeles in over 50 years, including many never before seen works. A catalog includes essays by the late Roger Corman, Shonberg biographer Spencer Kansa, film historian Justin Humphries, independent curator Robert Cozzolino, and art historian and documentarian Brian Chidester. A screening of the film “OUT HERE – A FILM ABOUT BURT SHONBERG” by Marshall Berle (former manager of SPIRIT, RATT, and VAN HALEN) and an online conversation between Stephen Romano, Justin Humphries, and Spencer Kansa (registration is […]
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Vincent Castiglia Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Opening December 1st and continuing through February 2023. For a detailed press release, follow this link. A catalog will be available, with contributions from es-teemed writers Michael Bonesteel (author of “Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings) and curator Robert Cozzolino (whose exhibition “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” recently toured museums in the USA), as well as Christopher Ian Lutz (whose writings have appeared in Beautiful Bizarre and Riot Material, and who wrote the catalog essay for Morbid Anatomy’s “Opus Hypnagogia” exhibition).
“Beyond the Pleasuredome: The Lost Occult World of Burt Shonberg” curated by BRIAN CHIDESTER at the BUCKLAND MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK, Cleveland Ohio AUGUST 17 – NOVEMBER 1 2021 The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Cleveland, Ohio, and Stephen Romano Gallery in Brooklyn, are pleased to present the first exhibition of art by the L.A. visionary BURT SHONBERG (1933-1977) in over 50 years. The exhibition opens August 17 and continues through November 1, 2021. The exhibition is curated by historian, documentarian, and longtime Shonberg advocate Brian Chidester. It is accompanied by a catalog, the first ever exclusively devoted […]
Above: Charles Dellschau “PLATE 2333 ON WATHER ON LAND AND UP IN THE CLOUDS” 1911 CHARLES DELLSCHAU (1830 – 1923): AMERICAN VISIONARY at the STEPHEN ROMANO GALLERY from October 29 – December 15 2015 December 17 – January 30 2016 Opening reception December 17, 5 – 9 pm 117 Grattan Street, Suite 112 (corner of Porter and Harrison)Brooklyn, NY 11237 “Charles Dellschau is widely acknowledged as an Outsider master in the same league as Adolph Wolfli, Henry Darger and Martin Ramirez” —Tom Patterson, RAW VISION MAGAZINE Above: Esther Pearl Watson Just Got out of Jail (Trivet) 2015 “Hieroglyphica” December 17 […]