Untitled bee), 195960 from Ray Johnson Correspondences, Wexner Center for the Arts

I Is an Other The Mail Art of Ray Johnson

Miriam Kienle. Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art. (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) One morning last month, on my way to work, I was thinking about the artist Ray Johnson as I rushed up the imposing stairs of the James A. Farley Building to the United States Post Office. I carried with me a plastic sack I had taped up to.

Untitled (Nightwood), RAY JOHNSON (19271995) Christie’s

Mail art by György Galántai, 1981. Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service.It developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School and the Fluxus movements of the 1960s. It has since developed into a global, ongoing movement.

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Ray Johnson: Correspondences presents multiple perspectives on the collages, correspondence art and performance events of an artist who made it his life's work to confound. Like the anthropological figure of the trickster, Johnson's works are slippery, elusive, difficult to pin down. This is their sly delight. Excerpt by Donna De Salvo and Catherine Gudis as published in the exhibition.

Pin on Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson : correspondences by Johnson, Ray. Publication date 1999 Topics Johnson, Ray, 1927- -- Exhibitions Publisher Columbus, Ohio : Wexner Center for the Arts Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. 224 p. : 28 cm

THE ART OF BOOKS & SMALL PRINT PUBLICATIONS RAY JONHSON Correspondences

1 5" document box. The Ray Johnson Correspondence to Robert Rauschenberg is comprised of just over forty correspondence works sent from Johnson to Rauschenberg from 1952 to 1965. The documents in this collection are typical of Johnson's Mail Art works in that they include small collages, "moticos," and short letters with absurdist prose.

Designing the Kootenays A Surveyor's Memoir by Ray Johnson by Johnson Issuu

This is the catalogue for an important retrospective of Ray Johnson's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art from January 14 to March 21, 1999.. De Salvo, Donna and Catherine Gudis, eds. Ray Johnson: Correspondences. Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 1999. Ray Johnson Estate 34 East 69th Street New York.

Ray Johnson Correspondences by Donna De Salvo & Catherine Gudis D & E Lake Ltd

Ray Johnson: correspondences, offers the first opportunity for in-depth examination of the work of an artist who reflected and dissected many of the aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical preoccupations of the last forty years; a figure whose impact and influence will finally be made known.

Ray Johnson (19271995)

It is generally and correctly understood among those who participated in the crest of the mail art movement in the late sixties and early seventies that Ray Johnson was the founder of the New York Correspondence School and foremost proponent of mailing activity. And while there have been a few exhibitions enthusiastically supported by growing numbers of mail artists, there has not been proper.

Ray Johnson & The New York Correspondence School A Table by Printed Matter Printed Matter

"Ray Johnson: Correspondences" perhaps inadvertently emphasizes the chilly formal side of Johnson's production, and in this light, the gambols of the New York Correspondence School seem an awful lot like homework. Some of this is inherent in the limitations of the material. It is difficult to exhibit many pages of the correspondence and.

Photographic correspondences PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE Ray Johnson Photographs The

In 1995, the resolutely reclusive Ray Johnson reemerged into the spotlight when he died in a mysterious and spectacular way, leading to the discovery of thousands of works of art in his house. Drawing upon this vast trove, Donna De Salvo, the Wexner Center's Curator at Large, has organized Ray Johnson: Correspondences, the first comprehensive exhibition to be mounted (with the complete.

Mail Art Postcard Exhibition RAY JOHNSON DOUBLE ADD AND RETURN

Ray Johnson. Elvis Presley #1 (Oedipus), 1956-58. Promised gift of The William S. Wilson Collection of Ray Johnson. Date of birth. 1927. Date of death. 1995. Once described as New York's "most famous unknown artist," Ray Johnson was a renowned maker of meticulous collages and a pioneering figure in the worlds of Pop, Fluxus, Conceptual.

Untitled bee), 195960 from Ray Johnson Correspondences, Wexner Center for the Arts

Miriam Kienle's detailed study of Ray Johnson's correspondence art is intimate and focused yet expansive—much like Johnson's work itself. Finally, we have a book-length, deeply researched account of Johnson's queer ways of making and communicating.

Photographic correspondences PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE Ray Johnson Photographs The

By the eighties, Johnson was a legend in the artistic community. Ray correspondences, offers the first opportunity for in-depth examination of the work of an artist who reflected and dissected many of the aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical preoccupations of the last forty years; a figure whose impact and influence will finally be made known.

Mail Art Postcard Exhibition RAY JOHNSON DOUBLE ADD AND RETURN

Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 - January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as "New York's most famous unknown artist". Johnson also staged and participated in early performance art events as the founder of a far-ranging mail art.

Photographic correspondences PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE Ray Johnson Photographs The

In the mid-1950s, the New York based artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995) initiated a new form of artistic practice called "mail art" that utilized the postal system as an alternative site for the distribution of art.. His "Correspondence Show" at Western Illinois University in 1974, for example, used the queer art zine FILE (a pun on the.