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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 (1927-1995), Untitled (Nothing with Brancusi), Undated, Ink on book page, 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.13 × 19.05 cm),. Over the years, Johnson inducted hundreds or thousands of recipients into what he called the New York Correspondence School by mailing them oblique yet personalized messages. These altered book and magazine pages.
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Ray Johnson (19271995)
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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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.
THE ART OF BOOKS & SMALL PRINT PUBLICATIONS RAY JONHSON Correspondences
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.
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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.
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I Is an Other The Mail Art of Ray Johnson
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.
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Untitled (Nightwood), RAY JOHNSON (19271995) Christie’s
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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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: 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. Read more. Previous page.
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"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.
Mail Art Postcard Exhibition RAY JOHNSON DOUBLE ADD AND RETURN
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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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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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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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.
