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Evening Magazine 1980

"Way Bay, an innovatively organized exhibition of art, film, performance, poetry, and archival materials, is a sweeping exploration of the creative energies that have emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area over two hundred years. Featuring more than two hundred works by Bay Area artists and others whose work engages directly with the region’s geographic and cultural landscape, the exhibition highlights artists—especially women and artists of color—whose contributions have been under recognized."

I am represented via a TV promo aired in 1980. I have very short hair because of a performance I was part of at Inter DADA 80.

One component that interests me is the San Quentin Prison Studio Mail Art Exchange. Some mail artists I know are sending in work.

Exhibits and activities are held January 17–May 6, 2018

Courtesy of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE, LaMamelle art space, Evening Magazine, and Copy Art Exhibition.

Richard Hambleton - 1952 to 2017

 

Scene from Blitzkunst taken in San Francisco 1979

Ginny Lloyd: Sorry to read about Richard's death. He stayed at my place in San Francisco for about a week as a favor for a gallery in town. I hardly saw him since he slept all day and was out all night working his magic on the city walls and pavement. I was beginning work on the book "Blitzkunst" so had the forethought to take this photo. I think it says a lot about Richard.

Monty Cantsin Amen: Thanks Ginny, I saved this. Whatever else comes to your mind pls message it, and if you see friends from mail-art or SF connection, etc, let them know I'm collecting memories, many thanks.

Ginny Lloyd: Thanks Monty for asking for my thoughts or other comments. In my conversations with Richard he had a plan and was determined to achieve stardom. He was handsome in a male model way and very intelligent. He talked about how he wanted a life about “wine, women and song”. 

Monty Cantsin Amen: That's a great pic you put up here. Richard was a good model. Do you have it in high res?  
 

Kazu Yanagi with Monty Cansin Amen - 1980

Ginny Lloyd: Yes I have one.  

Monty Cantsin Amen: I'm writing his biography. Let people know who might have comments.

Ginny Lloyd: The first time I saw the outlined image looking like a crime scene I hesitated to walk on it wondering what it was for. He liked to watch from a distance to see the reactions people had to this ‘scene”. His impromptu shadow paintings were popular after trying the paper posters. It was obvious he was a painter when you saw the shadow people. I believe he was in Brazil for a spell living the high life the last time I heard anything about him. Or maybe that was someone else. I don’t like the way the art world has shunned him instead of showing compassion. His story reads like a painter’s tale of a different era, like one of the gifted greats.

Note: There are several articles about Richard online. He was also part of Club 57, the club discussed in the previous post. In 2010 two rare Richard Hambleton pieces at the amfAR 17th Annual Cinema Against AIDS Gala During the Cannes Film Festival sold for $960,000.

Club 57 Catalog

Amy Chaiklin has done a good job keeping us informed. Thanks Amy!

The 1982 feminist group exhibition of all female artists is now documented and published in a museum exhibition catalog, Club 57 and the Short, Happy Life of the East Village Art Scene written by Laura Hoptman, MoMA Curator of Painting and Sculpture.

This exhibit has made Art History! 

 Also some additional people you may know exhibited there: Carlo Pittore, Buster Cleveland, john EvAns, Sur, and Brian Doherty. Mark Bloch got mentions too. Mark says its a very interesting show.

UPDATE

Art History! MoMA Curator Ron Magliozzi writes in his catalogue essay:

Art is What you Make it: Club 57 and the Downtown Scene, "Homemade zines and copy art proved among the most useful and accessible mediums of choice on the downtown scene, and exhibitions such as Watch These Girls: 19 Women Who Do Copy Art (October 14, 1982), curated by Amy Chaiklin, confirmed that women had taken the lead in shaping the medium's creative uses.".

MoMA Club 57 : Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village 1978-1983 Exhibition Catalog Page 16.

Image: Orginal poster for “Watch These Girls : 19 Women Who Do Copy Art”, offset print, 22 x 18 inches, 1982

Bill Whorrall Exhibits My Kind of Twisted Humor

 I have corresponded with Bill off and on for over 33 years and this is an example why receiving his art has never gotten stale. Bill, you keep me laughing! Thank you! We need this to counter balance all the news of disasters in the world and Washington, DC.

Australia Artists Book Fair - Inter DaDa 84 book was selected for the fair

Richard Tipping provided this great view of the fair. Click to enlarge this impressive image.

 

Volume 2017 - Jim Anderson was there at 5 in the afternoon on Friday (13th October) and took a few quick photos with the tables barely set up and the crowd arriving. The Fair continues through Saturday and Sunday. They say the big publishers are having a hard time. The small publishers are just having fun. You can have a book made on the spot, have your portrait taken, interviews, talks, videos, a seminar or two. For aficionados, not to be missed.

 Hi Ginny, thanks much for getting a copy of your book, Inter DaDa all the way from California in '84 to us in Australia in 2017 (a Network event crosses both the Millenial and the Date Lines making history that just won't die). The image was made for us by Jim Anderson, famous for Oz magazines and the Oz magazine trials in London when London was the centre of the action. Hope to send a few bits and pieces from Jim's megaphone (better than Donald's) into the grinder of your publicity machine. Best to you. terry reid

 

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Femail XX Mail Art Show - Held in Vermont - Unsung Femail XX Artists and Scientists

Sinclair Scripa created this wonderful mail art show held September 2017 at Stone Valley Arts Center in Poultney, Vermont.  Chuck Welch reports, "It looked as if 400 artists from over 30 countries were in this show, quite possibly Vermont's largest mail art show in over a decade or more ."

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9th, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Forum: Sunday, September 10th, 2017,  3:00 – 5:00pm
Exhibit Dates: September 9 – October 1, 2017
Location: Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill (145 E. Main Street, Poultney, VT 05764)

Why the theme? She wanted to create more awareness of the disparity between women and men artists' and scientists' opportunities. To quote Deanne Gertner in "Gender in The Art World, A Look At The Numbers"

• $135 million: the gap between the highest priced artwork ever purchased at auction and the highest price ever purchased at auction for a female artist’s work
• $51.3 million: the gap between the highest auction record for a living male artist to that of a living female artist
• 1:  the number of women included in the top 10 living artists based on total value of secondary market sales (2011-2016)
• 1: the number of Tier I female executive directors (out of 5) in the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District in the Denver metro area
• 0: the number of women on the highest-selling individual lots for living artists (2011-2016)