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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.

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I Is an Other The Mail Art of Ray Johnson

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.

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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.

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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.

Ray Johnson (19271995)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ray Johnson: Correspondences. Ray Johnson.. This is a catalog of Ray Johnson's exhibition at the Whitney and elsewhere in 1999. Mr. Johnson famously intentionally drowned himself on January 13th in 1995 at the age of 67. For a man whose turned his life into his art, his suicide with its nods to the number 13 and the preparation he did of his.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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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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I am Ray Johnson, contact me at 516-676-3150." The New York Correspondence School, loosely, is a group of friends and sort of a network of makers who are sending things in the mail and the person who is sort of the primary protagonist and sort of the impresario of this exchange in this network is Ray Johnson.