In development...

In his roles as an art historian and independent curator, Edward M. Gómez is working on several new,
art-related projects, including books and exhibitions, and articles for various magazines.

Among other projects, currently, he is doing research about the work of self-taught artists in Japan, contemporary artists in Cuba and the French-Swiss painter Gene Mann, who lives and works in Switzerland. He is developing a group exhibition of drawings that will feature the works of artists from the United States, Mexico, Japan, Cuba and other countries; this exhibition is projected to be presented at museums in the U.S., Japan and Europe.

Cuban artist Franklin Alvarez at his studio in Havana, September 2008.	The sisters Jacqueline (left) and Yamilys Brito, both artists, at their home in Havana, September 2008.	Volcán, 2008, a sculpture made of old, metal cooking pots, by Cuban artist Roberto Fabelo.	Downtown Havana, seen from the steps of the Capitolio, formerly the seat of Cuba’s national legislature.

One of the French-Swiss artist Gene Mann’s Painted Squares (10 cm x 10 cm); mixed media on paper, 2008.	Another of artist Gene Mann’s Painted Squares (10 cm x 10 cm); mixed media on paper, 2008.	Mexican artist Fernando Moreno examining a selection of Gene Mann’s Painted Squares, Mexico City, December 2008.

New acrylic-and-enamel paintings by the American artist Jon Waldo, in his New York studio, January 2009.

Edward at work in the archives of the Sam Glankoff Collection, New York, 2008.	Edward with framed drawings by Mexican artist Fernando Moreno and, above, an abstract drawing by Andrew Blythe, a self-taught artist from New Zealand. Painted-plaster sculptures on lower shelf by the Paris-based, Tunisian-born artist Jaber. Photo: Mexico City, 2008.	An April 2008 view of the print-making workshop at Atelier Incurve, an art-therapy center for disabled persons in Osaka, Japan, from which numerous, talented, self-taught artists have emerged.

The Polish-American, stone-carving artist Ted Ludwiczak at his riverside home in the Hudson Valley, north of New York, and several of his sculptures; Edward’s article about Ludwiczak’s work will be published in a forthcoming issue of Raw Vision, the London-based, international magazine about outsider and self-taught artists’ creations.