Sentences with phrase «mail art»

These gallery shows and personal encounters added to my growing collection of mail art.

During the 1990's he primarily followed conceptual approaches and conducted mail art projects.

Communication as an art form is an ancient tradition, but mail art as an organized and conscious artistic movement first appeared in the late 50s and early 60s.

Among the highlights of the exhibition are his video performances and word - based works, including mail art.

Started in the 60s, mail art networks expanded in the following decades as a new form of artistic expression.

The analog mail art project that appears to be ongoing is still relevant and not archaic at all.

For many artists living and working in the country during this time mail art was the only way to personally connect with other artists internationally.

He invented the Event Score and started spreading art in the form of mail art.

This exhibition showcases North American neo-conceptualist artists» responses to groundbreaking Gutai performances; original paintings, video, photographs, and ephemera from private collections; and an expansive collection of Mail Art from more than 200 contemporary artists in 30 countries.

Pete Spence was the curator of an International Mail Art Show at The Writers Centre in Melbourne in 1990 ~ Visual Poetry Outdoor Show at St. Kilda Festival in 1990 ~ an exhibition at Linden Gallery, St. Kilda in 1991 ~ Visual and Concrete Poetry at Trades Hall, Melbourne as well as Mallarme: Visual Poetry in 1998.

As many readers will have already caught wind of around the web, Hyperallergic has been collecting mail art for three months.

On the eve of his solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paulo Bruscky talks about mail art, fluxus and outwitting the Brazilian military dictatorship

After the dissolution of Gutai following the death of Jiro Yoshihara in 1972, Shozo Shimamoto began his own art association, AU (Artist's Union and / or Art Unidentified), which published a frequently issued newsletter widely distributed to the international Mail Art community.

Shimamoto's artworks are in a collection of several prominent art venues and museums, such as Tate Modern, London, Ca» Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, National Museum of Modern Art of Rome and Art Center of Milan in Italy, Mail Art Museum, Switzerland, Paris Gallery in France, and Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum and Osaka Contemporary Art Museum in Japan.

Spiritually inclined yet steeped in popular culture and the political events of the day, he conducted reconnaissance far beyond the borders of California, mining the American psyche and broadcasting his ideas through mail art, publications, photographs and multilayered art works.

Printed Matter presents Imprint 93, an archive exhibition focused on the 90s collaborative mail art project conceived and carried out by Matthew Higgs.

Voorsanger, who is married to Bob and Roberta Smith, another Imprint 93 artist, will never forget those times, not least because she named their daughter by mail art.

I've got a webcomic / game art thing starting at my new flat and i'd love one / some of his stuff Mail me

Today's show: «Please Add To and Return To: Mail Art Homage to Ray Johnson» is open through November 28 at Printed Matter «s new location at 231 11th Avenue.

The Whitechapel Gallery presents Imprint 93, Matthew Higgs» collaborative 1990s mail art project in its first archive exhibition.

ARC: Just as for some conceptual artists who made mail art, there was an idea or a feeling that imbued the object itself?

What we were doing wasn't antagonistic towards the art world, unlike mail art in the»70s, which I think was quite political with a small «p» in an attempt to negate the gallery system.

The exhibition also presents an impressive collection of Mail Art elicited in response to the movement by over 200 contemporary artists from thirty countries.

Co-curator and art historian John Held, Jr., who performed with Shimamoto and other prominent Mail Art artists in the U.S. and Japan, explains, «Gutai artists» rethinking of venues for exhibition took the display of art outside the «white cube» of traditional showrooms and centered it in the midst of people's lives.»

Shortly after they met in the late 1960s, however, Metcalfe and Lee - Nova gained international recognition and contributed to the development of Vancouver's burgeoning performance and mail art traditions via their alternate personas of Dr. Brute and Art Rat.

We are thrilled to announce the return of our summer show, «Priority Mail»: Ground Floor Gallery's mail art biennial.

Plenty of new art from North Americans: R. H. Quaytman with a salon of her delicate small mixed - media paintings; Stanley Whitney's bright geo - paintings; Moyra Davey's mail art series Skeletal Buddha (2017) where she folds up photographs, then mails them to the exhibition curators with their addresses, date of mailing, etc..

It sounds as if mail art was operating in a similar way, in terms of trying to thwart power structures.

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A very early mail art show (Johnson collaborated with Joseph Raphael the previous year on a similar exhibition at Sacramento State College) that set the tone for the explosion of exhibitions that followed in the next two decades.

2007 Library Mail Art Show, Charles Voorhies Library, Portland, OR Vista Ave. Viaduct, Higgins Gallery, part of Platform Animation Festival, Portland, OR NW by SW, PSU / PNCA Exchange Group Show, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR I'm Searching Too, TBA Festival, PICA, Portland, OR

Precedents come from fine art, design, craft, and mass media including paper architecture, paper airplanes, paper dolls, origami, Mad Magazine fold - outs, exploded machine diagrams and pie charts, Fluxus mail art, the Surrealists» Exquisite Corpse games, and even the complex systems of workshops and apprentices of the Renaissance.

In Brazil, mail art matured during the dictatorship (1964 - 1985).

Within a political context filled with tension mail art also plaid a denunciatory role.

While mail art networks as we have come to know them are less vibrant than they have been before the advent of the internet, the methodology of using the post office and courier services as an inherent component in the production of mailed sculptures, paintings or photographs, for example, continues to resonate in the work of several artists.

However, around 1970, stone - based works abounded in Japanese art, ranging from Mono - ha (literally, «School of Things») to conceptualism and even mail art.

The exhibition Batalhão de Telegrafistas considers mail art as a global movement among artists from the centers and the margins of the art system, from the late 1960s into the present.

Over the course of their relationship Warner received hundred of pieces of mail art from Johnson, ranging from collages to a hand - delivered piece of driftwood.

He quickly opened up the parameters of Concrete Poetry to include mail art, kinetic art, «part - art» and performance art.

As for Clement Greenberg, I'm not surprised he never wrote about mail art.

This exhibition showcases North American, neo-conceptualist artists» responses to groundbreaking Gutai performances; dozens of paintings, original video, photographs, and ephemera from private collections; and an expansive collection of Mail Art from more than 30 countries.

Famous Fluxus artists included the German hypermodernist Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86), the Japanese concept artist Yoko Ono (b. 1933), the collage artist and father of mail art Ray Johnson (1927 - 95), the Swiss «Happenings» organizer Ben Vautier (b. 1935), the Romanian - Swiss sculptor Daniel Spoerri (b. 1930), plus noted exponents of film and video art such as the Korean - born Nam June Paik (1932 - 2011) and the German avant - gardist Wolf Vostell (1932 - 98).