I am just passing this on, if you have questions, please email Louise Weinberg at [email protected]
I am putting up a selection of the artists' postcards created especially for A Book About Death collaborative project up at the Queens Museum of Art as one of a trio of exhibitions celebrating the Day of the Dead. The exhibition opens on November 1st and runs through November 15. A reception will be held on November1st from 3 to 6pm. Selections from "A Book About Death" is an artists' collaborative project conceived by collage artist Matthew Rose (an American living and working in Paris) for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City where the original exhibition took place from September 10 - 22, 2009. Over 500 artists contributed 500 postcards each created from artworks made especially to create an unbound book about death in homage to Ray Johnson (father of mail art), a celebration of Emily Harvey, and a global exploration of how we celebrate memory and death. The only requirement was to include the words "a book about death" somewhere on the card. Since then, the exhibition has traveled to the Otis College of Art and Design in LA, and to the Mobius Gallery in Boston, MA, as well as becoming part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library. The Queens Museum is presenting a selection of cards from the exhibition and are also asking the community, in an artist-led workshop, to create their own postcard about death and add it to the exhibition. To be included in this exhibition, make a postcard and send it to: Louise Weinberg, Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368. Delivery by 10/30 is ideal though submissions will be accepted during the exhibition and exhibited Any size 6 x 9" and under is desirable Any lightweight material is good for the substrate such as paper, matboard, thin cardboard, etc. Whatever you wish to submit in terms of handmade or printed. I would keep the cards with the possibility of further exhibitions in the future. Thanks and looking forward to seeing some great work. Louise Weinberg [email protected]
