paintings | combines | assemblages | works on paper : mail art | prints | photography | videos
paintings | combines | assemblages | works on paper : mail art | prints | photography | videos
21 postcards 1-7, mixed media, 2009. A Book About Death, MuBE - Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, permanent collection.
Series of Seven pieces. Each one of the pieces consists of 21 collected postcards, tied together and altered with mixed media techniques. The 21 postcards, symbolizing 21 grams: "They say a body always loses exactly 21 grams at the moment of death." Could it be that in a simple number is contained something as precious as life?
Each piece is approximately 8" x 6".
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Title of Exhibition: Connections: Art Reaching Out From Around the World
Elder Street Gallery, Houston TX: Postcard art show October 17-31, 2009.
24 altered postcards: 4x6 in, 2-sided, mixed media on printed postcard, 2009
Elder Street Gallery hosts “Connections” a benefit for the English Speaking Union Houston Branch - Shakespeare Competition. Artists from 21 countries and 25 US states will be reaching out through art sent on postcards. Opening reception Oct 17, 5-9 pm. Closing Oct 31, 2009.
Mail art was popularized in the '60s by Ray Johnson of the New York Correspondence School, and many contemporary artists use the art form to express themselves. All postcard art created on an existing 4"x6" post card or a 5” X 9” post card. Materials will vary, depending on the technique you choose. Artists create with any technique, and all media, including collage, markers, crayons, pen and ink, colored pencils, rubber stamps, tempera, acrylic, watercolor and printmaking.
The English Speaking Union Houston Branch is a non profit organization dedicated to international relations between the UK and the other countries of the world and the celebration of all things British. www.elderstreetartist.com/index.html
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