(,) LOOK THAT MY PROJECT OF MAIL ART
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(,) Postcard Prints
Hello Everyone, FYI. If you need additional information, please contact Kris Engle, redni...@gmail.com Iowa State University's Print Club is hosting the 9th Annual Postcard Print Exchange. Each year artists participate with entries from across the United States and as far away as Australia and the United Arab Emirates. The theme for this year's exchange is Two of Five Pick any Two of the following Five words as the basis of your print: Star Imposter Hallucinogenic Monster Fast You can use any form of these words such as monsters, monstrous, monstrously, monstrousness, monstrosity, etc...We encourage you to consider all possible meanings for the above words. Requirements: 1) Any EDITIONABLE printmaking technique may be used. (woodcuts, litho, intaglio, photography, silkscreen, digital printmaking, etc) Please Do Not send monoprints/monotype s. Each of the prints sent must be identical to the others. 2) The post cards must be 4 x 6. 3) 13 identical prints should be sent individually to the address posted below. (Each card must be stamped and will bear the markings of travel and the postal service. Do Not send the cards together in one envelope.) 4) Include the following information on the back of the card: a. Your return address b. April Katz' address (details below) c. A list of the process(es) used d. Optional: your e-mail address Donations Requested: Please send separately a donation to help pay for postage. Send cash or checks payable to The University Print Society. Suggested Donations: $2 students, $3 others, $4 international. Send more if you can, less if you can't. ENTRIES DUE: Friday, APRIL 10, 2009 After receiving everyone's postcard prints the University Print Society will randomly divide up the cards and you will be sent 12 new and different prints from other participants. The University Print Society will keep one of the 13 for its collection. Postage for returning the 12 new prints will be paid for by the University Print Society. Your donation will help us out tremendously however. Please be sure to put your return address on every postcard sent. Send postcard prints to: April Katz University Print Society 158 Design Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-3092 *Please send questions and comments to the University Print Society president, Kris Engle, redni...@gmail. com
(,) Ray Johnson in London Feb 2009 emphasis on mail-art
_www.ravenrow.org_ (http://www.ravenrow.org) Raven Row – 56 Artillery Lane, London e1 7ls – Raven Row is a new non-profit contemporary art exhibition centre at 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, E1, which will open to the public on 28 February 2009. Behind one of the finest eighteenth-century shopfronts in London, situated on a street whose original name it has retained, Raven Row will present five exhibitions a year in a series of historic rooms onto which leading young UK practice 6a Architects have added two contemporary galleries. Raven Row’s inaugural exhibition will be the largest yet in Europe of the collages and mailings of Ray Johnson, described by the New York Times in 1965 as 'New York's most famous unknown artist'. Johnson, who pioneered ‘mail art’, lived in self-imposed exile from galleries between the seventies and his death in 1995. Raven Row's programme is intended to appeal both to the specialist audience and a broader, curious public. It is led by a desire to show the most interesting work that has somehow escaped London’s attention, both by established international artists, and by those whose practice has eluded the canons of art history. Flats in the building’s upper floors will host visiting artists and curators and occasional residencies organised by invitation. The first residency by the activist sound collective Ultra-red starting in March 2009, will coincide with Raven Row's second exhibition, of work by German pop artist Thomas Bayrle and Danish film and sound artist Ann Lislegaard. Other exhibitions in 2009 will include a collaboration between LA artist Dave Hullfish Bailey and London artist Nils Norman, and the first UK exhibition of the video installations of Harun Farocki, one of Germany's most significant filmmakers. Four Corners Books, an acclaimed non-profit publisher of artists' books and books on art, will be based in the building and will organise occasional exhibitions and share events there. Raven Row 's intention is to explore what it might mean to be of 'cultural value' to London, and its programming model will be subject to regular scrutiny and experiment. Attendance figures, accessibility, critical attention, and educational use will all be taken into consideration, but the board is not accountable to any of these indicators. **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/10075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)
(,) Ray Johnson at Raven Row: please spread the news
Ray Johnson. Please Add to Return. Inaugural Exhibition. 28 February to 10 May 2009. Raven Row's inaugural exhibition is the first large UK show of the collages and mailings of New York artist Ray Johnson. Johnson used radical means to construct and distribute images, and his influence on twentieth century art far exceeds the recognition he receives. A forerunner of American Pop Art, Johnson appropriated found images of celebrities such as Elvis Presley and James Dean in his work in the mid-fifties. He also integrated his art with social life, inadvertently inventing the 'mail art movement', and anticipating the digital network. In 1965 Johnson was described by the New York Times as 'New York's most famous unknown artist', a statement that still applied when he died thirty years later. Johnson flirted only occasionally with commercial galleries in the sixties, and ignored them from the mid-seventies until his death in 1995. He remains virtually unknown in Europe. Ray Johnson's works elude academic classification. Their meticulously arranged surfaces are subverted by spontaneity and randomness, demonstrating the influence of both Albers and Cage, two of his teachers at Black Mountain College. His works can be read as a sequence of tropes and details, a dance of images and text colliding in sometimes hilarious free association. And Johnson brought others into the dance. He circulated his art amongst a group of friends and those he wanted to see his work, originally as a strategy for exhibiting without a gallery. Johnson created what he described as 'a game of ping-pong', often instructing recipients to add to and send on his mailings, either to specific people or back to him. This furthered the indeterminacy of his images, introducing one person to another (or introducing an image to an audience of one through the mailbox) in a way analogous to the meeting of fragments in a collage. Ray Johnson. Please Add to Return will be the largest exhibition yet of Johnson's work in Europe. Significantly, it will be the first anywhere to represent Johnson's mailings, objects he regarded as gifts and thus contrary to the market, equally with the collage works he made for gallery exhibition between 1966 and 1973. Also included will be the collages he subjected to a seemingly endless process of reworking and overlaying, which were found signed with multiple dates and neatly arranged in his house at the time of his death. This exhibition would not have been possible without the generous participation of the Estate of Ray Johnson at Richard L. Feigen Co. **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/10075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)
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please add a little paste right here --- thankyou queque rain rien neverglue -Original Message- From: par...@aol.com To: ma-network@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 6:39 am Subject: (,) Ray Johnson in London Feb 2009 emphasis on mail-art www.ravenrow.org Raven Row – 56 Artillery Lane, London e1 7ls – Raven Row is a new non-profit contemporary art exhibition centre at 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, E1, which will open to the public on 28 February 2009. Behind one of the finest eighteenth-century shopfronts in London, situated on a street whose original name it has retained, Raven Row will present five exhibitions a year in a series of historic rooms onto which leading young UK practice 6a Architects have added two contemporary galleries. Raven Row’s inaugural exhibition will be the largest yet in Europe of the collages and mailings of Ray Johnson, described by the New York Times in 1965 as 'New York's most famous unknown artist'. Johnson, who pioneered ‘mail art’, lived in self-imposed exile from galleries between the seventies and his death in 1995. Raven Row's programme is intended to appeal both to the specialist audience and a broader, curious public. It is led by a desire to show the most interesting work that has somehow escaped London’s attention, both by established interna tional artists, and by those whose practice has eluded the canons of art history. Flats in the building’s upper floors will host visiting artists and curators and occasional residencies organised by invitation. The first residency by the activist sound collective Ultra-red starting in March 2009, will coincide with Raven Row's second exhibition, of work by German pop artist Thomas Bayrle and Danish film and sound artist Ann Lislegaard. Other exhibitions in 2009 will include a collaboration between LA artist Dave Hullfish Bailey and London artist Nils Norman, and the first UK exhibition of the video installations of Harun Farocki, one of Germany's most significant filmmakers. Four Corners Books, an acclaimed non-profit publisher of artists' books and books on art, will be based in the building and will organise occasional exhibitions and share events there. Raven Row 's intention is to explore what it might mean to be of 'cultural value' to London, and its programming model will be subject to regular scrutiny and experiment. Attendance figures, accessibility, critical attention, and educational use will all be taken into consideration, but the board is not accountable to any of these indicators. A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!
