For its 27th edition, the Outsider Art Fair will welcome 67 galleries to New York’s Metropolitan Pavilion in January. This year, the fair includes such notable exhibitors as first-time participant Maccarone, which will present a solo booth dedicated to political cartoons by comedian and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actor Jim Carrey.

The gallery first exhibited Carrey’s drawings at its Los Angeles space in October, where it showed roughly 80 works on paper and one painting. The works were political in nature, growing out of a series of scabrous cartoons the actor has posted to social media, and timed to coincide with the November 6 midterm elections. At the Outsider Art Fair, Carrey will present new material, created partly in response to the results of the midterms.

But can a Hollywood actor really be described as an outsider artist?

“While Carrey certainly is a self-taught artist, nobody would say that Carrey is a culturally isolated figure as some other outsider artists are,” Andrew Edlin, director of the Outsider Art Fair, told artnet News. “Even though we’re more connected [to art] by technology, Carrey shows that we’re still discovering incredible examples of work by people who aren’t part of the art world, aren’t schooled, and came to art without career aspirations or without the audience being a driving factor.”

Edlin says he invited Michele Maccarone to exhibit Carrey’s work at the fair after he came across it in her Los Angeles gallery. “Michele Maccarone is actually hip to, and savvy to, outsider art,” he said, noting that she mounted a show of the colorful works of Eugene von Bruenchenhein, who produced thousands of photographs, paintings, and other works in his Milwaukee home, in 2014. “So when I saw that she did a show of Jim Carrey’s work it was a logical decision to give her a call.”

Indeed, Carrey’s participation in the fair comes at a time when the definition of what it means to be an artist has never been more in flux. Is Artificial Intelligence an outsider artist? (Does an algorithm count as “formal training”?) What about a Hollywood director working in VR like Alejandro González Iñárritu?

Jim Carrey, The Great Spewdini (2018). Image courtesy of Jim Carrey and Maccarone.

Other highlights of the 2019 edition of the fair include artworks by some of the biggest names in the field, including James Castle and Von Bruenchenhein at Fleisher/Ollman (Philadelphia); William Edmondson at Ricco/Maresca (New York); and Anna Zemánková at Cavin-Morris (New York). Classic art brut will also get a place at Pol Lemétais gallery from Saint Souver de Moustier, France, which is bringing works by Madge Gill and Carlo Zinelli.

This year’s fair will also present a memorial booth dedicated to the late dealer Phyllis Kind, who died last month and dedicated much of her career to overlooked artists who had not been formally trained, including Martín Ramírez and Henry Darger.

See the full exhibitor list for the 2019 edition of the Outsider Art Fair below.