FOLK • OUTSIDER • VERNACULAR

Discover Nameless 

Celebrating anonymous brilliance, Nameless opens during New York Antiques Week as the first fair dedicated to visionary folk art, outsider art, and vernacular design created by unknown, forgotten, and marginalized artists across time.

The collective project of two dozen art dealers from around the country, Nameless offers diverse material—including works of art, furnishings, textiles, and photography—while balancing the appreciation of traditional craft with the drive to surface discoveries.

Recognizing unrecognized genius, telling untold stories, and valuing undervalued work, Nameless presents a vision of American art that is inclusive, expansive, accessible, and alive.

FOLK • OUTSIDER • VERNACULAR

Anonymous work matters

Nameless challenges an arts establishment that devalues extraordinary art for lack of a signature.

Driven by homegrown creativity and liberated from the constraints of conventional design, “nameless” self-taught artists of decades and centuries past often worked in obscurity, with many lacking access to formal training and recognition due to their race, gender, disability, or class. Today, their legacies more often than not take the form of singular, unsigned works of art, the best of which thwart categorization and disrupt mainstream narratives.

Nameless aims to invert the market and institutional forces that continue to discount and neglect this remarkable unidentified material while inspiring collectors to engage it with fresh eyes. Celebrating works made for the joy of creative expression as well as those created out of necessity,  Nameless broadens the story of American art through exciting discoveries, opening paths for scholarship, and honoring the genius of countless individuals whose names are forever lost to time.

“Nameless opens a door into the unknown. And, because this work exists largely off the charts, it offers those with open eyes an accessible way into collecting unusual art and functional objects that spark inspiration and gut-level attraction.”

Aarne Anton, Exhibitor