Outsider art finds a home--literally--in this Columbia City gallery.

by Contributor

The Experience
Running a gallery from your living room might interfere with wandering about in your bathrobe but in terms of self-taught artists, it works. At least temporarily for Karen Light and Marcus Pina, whose passion for outsider art--also termed self-taught, naive, folk, "Art Brut," visionary and kitsch--surpasses their mundane desires for privacy. As the only Seattle spot dedicated to outsider art, it's chock-full of the tantalizing visions escaping from artistic minds. Though the art may appear childlike, it mirrors very grown-up notions that reflect real and imaginary worlds. Take a trip to South Seattle for a glimpse of art that runs counter to the established Northwest scene.

In the Know
Light and Pina prepped their home for gallery status by doing construction after hours--the ambitious art fanatics were still working day jobs.