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Tucker Contemporary Art Presents
The Artworks of Dominant Dansby at The OUTSIDER ART FAIR
March 19 – 22, 2026
Metropolitan Pavilion – Booth A1
125 West 18th Street
New York City 10011
Tucker Contemporary Art is proud to announce that we will be a first-time exhibitor at The Outsider Art Fair, the premier fair dedicated to showcasing self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art from around the world. We will present a solo booth featuring works by Dominant Dansby.
The works on view are grounded in sustained attention to material, rhythm, and process. Built through layering, repetition, and physical engagement, his collages function as records of movement and exchange rather than fixed images. Drawing from recycled studies and a deep relationship to jazz, each work develops through improvisation and response, privileging texture and energy as primary forms of meaning. Resonant with the process-driven abstraction of artists such as Jack Whitten, Dansby’s practice emphasizes material intelligence and rhythm over representation. His work invites viewers into a slowed, embodied encounter where surface holds time, gesture, and focus.
The Outsider Art Fair is the leading international event dedicated to Self-Taught and Outsider Art. Featuring 68 exhibitors from across the United States and around the world, the fair continues to serve as a key forum for the global conversation about artists who work without formal artistic training and operate outside established art-historical traditions.
Dominant Dansby’s (b. 1988) work emerges from a lifelong commitment to material exploration and the dynamic interplay between gesture, rhythm, and emotional energy. From his earliest days as a student artist—receiving multiple awards and recognition, including four first-place honors at the 2005 North Jersey Student Art Show and the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Art Education—Dansby demonstrated a precocious command across diverse mediums including oil, pastel, charcoal, and mixed media. His early achievements foreshadowed an artistic vision shaped by sustained focus, perceptual intensity, and an instinctive drive toward making as a form of communication. Trained at the School of Visual Arts as a Silas H. Rhodes Scholar, Dansby brings a strong foundation in drawing and formal discipline to a practice that ultimately privileges intuition, rhythm, and sustained engagement. His work occupies a space between structure and improvisation, where abstraction becomes a means of organizing perception rather than illustrating it.
Tucker Contemporary Art partners with collectors and institutions to discover, acquire, exhibit, and champion the work of emerging contemporary artists. Its roster reflects a dynamic and eclectic range of voices whose practices question and expand the boundaries of class, culture, gender, and race that shape today’s global art landscape. Drawing on deep experience in fine art, marketing, and education, TCA actively cultivates and advances the careers of African American and other underrepresented artists. Represented artists include both academically trained practitioners and visionary creators working beyond traditional mainstream channels, united by originality, rigor, and cultural impact.
The OUTSIDER ART FAIR
March 19 – 22, 2026 Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York City 10011
Thursday, March 19th
Press Preview: 11:00 AM -12:00 PM
VIP Preview: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Vernissage: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, March 20th
Open Hours: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday, March 21st
Open Hours: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 22nd
Open Hours: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM