03/10/2024 10:56 AM

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‘Strangers in a Strange Land’

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The Amarillo Museum of Art (AMoA) is opening a new exhibit for the public this week. 

AMoA is presenting “Strangers in a Strange Land: Photographs of American Visionaries and Their Environments” starting Friday, April 22 and continuing through Aug. 14.

According to a news release, this exhibition of 54 photographs, taken over the past 12 years by Cincinnati, Ohio-based American historian and photographer Steve Plattner, honors 25 American “visionaries” and their often idiosyncratic, highly personal worlds.

“While there is no overarching term to adequately describe the collective characteristics of these visionaries, as a group they share at least three traits,” the release says:

– Each of them has resisted the formidable pressures of mainstream American culture to pursue their own path and craft their own personal worlds of wonder.

Steve Plattner, (American b. 1953), Ernie Adams, 2020. The Amarillo Museum of Art is presenting Plattner's work in a new exhibit, "Strangers in a Strange Land: Photographs of American Visionaries and Their Environments."

– Not satisfied with visions alone, through force of will they have managed to transform their remarkable ideas into something tangible and substantial, usually with found and scavenged materials.

– They are largely self-taught, with little or no formal training.

The conceptual and stylistic scope of the work of the subjects included in Plattner’s photos is as vast as the variety of materials and techniques they employ, with visionaries from all walks of life — mechanics, electronic engineers, art museum conservators,

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