The Outsider Art Fair has, for 30 years, been in a unique position of championing and engaging with art "unscathed by artistic culture," which by its definition is at the origins of Juxtapoz Magazine. For the 30th anniversary of OAF, they highlighted one of the key touchstones of the emergence of outsider and underground arts in NYC, Psychedelic Solution, operated in New York’s West Village from 1986 to 2004 by Jacaeber Kastor. The gallery itself was the epicenter of the way we now look at psychedelic art, and how the art form challenged the our perceptions of how art was collected and critically reviewed.
As the fair opened on March 3, 2022, Outsider Art Fair showcased in the fair, Field Trip: Psychedelic Solution, 1986-1995, curated by Fred Tomaselli, which draws on Kastor’s extensive collection. On the eve of the fair, a panel of Kastor, Tomaselli, Dan Nadel and Nicole Rudick spoke on the gallery’s formative years, its legacy, and Kastor’s singular championing of psychedelic art.
