New York artist Michael Mapes is a collector. Well, maybe not your typical one. His art is inspired by scientific specimen collections. His photographs themselves question the logic behind the organization of each piece. By dissecting and then compartmentalizing individual fragments within plastic bags, glass vials, magnifiers, and on insect pins, he has created a "biographical DNA"...

Ashbury Park, New Jersey’s Parlor Gallery presents the opening a new group show Outsiders & Objects, exploring the genre of outsider art as well as the way artists utilize objects in their artwork.