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Sources of art by mail
bullet Afungusboy <$!IAfungusboy>(PO Box 134, Brockport, NY 14420)
sent a trio of signed posters that might be thought of as
degenerated portraits, collage and pen distortions of things that
started out as pictures.
bullet Brian Blight (2024 Roseland, Flint, MI 48506) continues to
offer color photos for trade with anyone who wants to do so.
bullet Day of the Dead is the theme of a mail art show being held
October 15-November 15 at Bookbeat (26010 Greenfield, Oak Park,
MI 48237.
bullet Detective is a joint international mail art project. No
size limits, no media limits, no fees, no returns, no jury.
Deadline is August 30, 1991, and you're asked to send your art to
two different places: Oleg Yudin, 128-2-256, Bucharestskaya St.,
Leningrad 192288, USSR (please send certified) and FaGaGaGa (PO
Box 1382, Youngstown, OH 44501.
bullet Paul Dion <$!IPaul Dion[dion]>(24 Main St., South Grafton,
MA 01560) continues to send envelopes full of goodies, from
furniture form-letters to his own odd openquoteticketsclosequote
which resemble intergalactic paper money.
bullet Thomas K. Forest (PO Box 56, Orange, MA 01364) sent a
portfolio of colored drawings, a mix of strange spiky trees
growing eyes and busty women with big eyes. You might be able to
get a few yourself for an appropriate swap.
bullet A. Franza <$!IA. Franza[franza]>(254 River Dr., Moriches,
NY 11955) sent a couple of 8 1/2 x 11 posters, featuring
interactions between the media and the realer world. A later
poster folds out into a larger image with the cryptic words
openquotePoison Golfclosequote and a praying figure.
bullet Images of Global Peace <$!IImages of Global Peace>(Mail
Art, 549 W. Allen, Springfield, IL 62704) is an international
show, over 300 pieces from 30 countries, seeking tour dates for
display around the world. Contact them if you have a bar, union
hall, student center, bookstore or whatever that would be
interested.
bullet JBB/Magico Verdun is soliciting material for two projects:
one on families (submit in duplicate) and one on the earth (send
20 grams of dirt from where you live). The address is Pompeu
Fabra, 12, E-25337 Bellcaire (Lieida), ITALY.
bullet Junk Mail <$!IJunk Mail>-- the practice of swapping
envelopes full of who knows what -- continues to be on the
upswing. Here's a few participants who will send you theirs if
you send them yours:
Envelope O'Fun comes from Graham Trievel (Box 481, Rt. 113,
Lionville, PA 19353). He seems to have a real talent for digging
up obscure bits of commercialized childhood Americana.
The Joy of Detritus (Rt. 1 Box 373, Charlottesville, VA
22901-9605) is into flyers, collages, and copier art.
Brian Of (9004-B Quali Valley Dr., Austin, TX 78758) sent an
envelope skin bumps, ad horseplay, concrete poetry and more
original work.
Phoenix <$!IPhoenix>(PO Box 92007, Santa Barbara, CA 93190)
whose latest envelope had a plastic plane, a round playing card,
model instructions, a cash register receipt, and other junk.
Shark Art <$!IShark Art>(150 Degraw St. #3R, Brooklyn, NY
11231) sent an envelope with phone book and newspaper clippings,
rubber stampings, and a fabric Shark Art emblem.
openquoteSkulls That Stair Backclosequote <$!ISkulls That
Stair Back>comes from Eric Enterprises (5 Winthrop Rd.,
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648) and is mainly clippings of photos from
magazines, biology catalogs, and other mainstream sources. Some
collaged, some just tossed in the envelope.
Shark Art <$!IShark Art>(150 Degraw St. #3-R, Brooklyn, NY
11231) whose envelope of clippings and collage and safety pin
also contained a note pointing out that not all mail artists are
men.
Shauna Sky <$!IShauna Sky[sky]>(6105 S. Archer Rd., Summit,
IL 60501) is the editor of SCREAMING ROCK, and has a variety of
things to pass along within wide boundaries -- openquoteexcept
rotting fruit etc.closequote.
Vague <$!IVague>(45cents postage from PO Box 8511, Warwick,
RI 02888) sent an envelope that seems to have come at least in
part straight from the dumpster, with plastic wrappers and a dead
bug in addition to stickers and flyers.
bullet Jeanie M. <Jeanie M.[m]>(PO Box 26372, San Francisco, CA
94126) is looking to trade photos of road kills, either in color
or black and white.
bullet MAILABLE ART <$!IMAILABLE ART>(Dumpster Press, PO Box
80044, Akron, OH 44308) is an assortment of doodles and drawings
on colorful cardstock. 5 different ones for 50cents, 10 for a
buck, or the whole set of 32 for $3.
bullet Malok <$!IMalok>(PO Box 41, Waukau, WI 54980) is still
sending out small posters at the drop of an SASE, along with
drawings, collages, photos and who knows what else.
bullet Chris Martin <$!IChris Martin[martin]> still has his series
of original color photographs of rather bored looking girls in
swimsuits available for 25cents & an SASE per photo from Rt. 1
Box 373, Charlottesville, VA 22901-9605.
bullet The Rev. Dr. Ian Alistair McAlister of the Gomez Addams
Cabal (PO Box 25458, Baltimore, MD 21217-0258) is seeking stuff
from Witches, Discordians, and Sadomasochists.
bullet Matteetag! <$!IMatteetag>(5219 Meadowbrook Dr.,
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055) has available small booklets made from
clothing tags, altered by eraser carvings. There are twenty small
booklets available on a first come, first serve basis to the
first twenty people who send a stamp.
bullet Plastic Monsters -- or for that matter rubber or wooden
ones, are needed for a mail art show by Graham Trievel (Rt. 113,
Box 481, Lionville, PA 19353. No deadline, documentation to all.
bullet Michael Northam (5325 W. Jackson St., Indianapolis, IN
46241) is doing a mail art project consisting of putting up
cross-cultural posters around Indianapolis, and invites your
contributions of posters.
bullet Bern Porter and Fa Ga Ga Ga <$!IBern Porter [porter]> are
offering 23 small postcards of collaged images -- commercial art
and typography -- often mildly porny in ways that protest
censorship. Delphic stuff. $3 from Box 1382, Youngstown, OH 44501
bullet openquotePunk is Good Choiceclosequote is the theme of a
mail art show being held in Warsaw, with an August 31, 1991
deadline, size & media free. Send to Olgierd Bochenski, Ul.
Pereca 13/19, M. 819, 00849 Warsaw, POLAND.
bullet E. Peter Regis (PO Box 68, Los Angeles, CA 90078) will send
you a playing card featuring a nude woman if you send him
something with a sexual theme, and who mentions they're over 21.
bullet Rubber Stamp Exchange <$!IRubber Stamp Exchange>is a
project of the A1 Waste Paper Co.: simply send them your old
rubber stamps (at 71, Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX, ENGLAND) and
they will mail you new ones in return.
bullet Jon Themann (46 Greenport Ave., Medford, NY 11763) sent a
poster called openquoteThe Vulgar Pictureclosequote, which was
really more openquoteyouth in perilclosequote than vulgar per se.
bullet Turning Forty is the theme of a mailart show being hosted
by Rudi Rubberoid (PO Box 2432, Bellingham, WA 98227-2432). Size
open, media anything 2-dimensional, exhibition in March, deadline
15 February 1991.<$!ITurning Forty>
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