Saturday, July 31, 2010

Artibook - Travel Book

Sample pages. Would you buy this book? Considering publishing it "print on demand".

Artibooks - Plastic and multimedia

A sample of several books made in this style:


Artibooks Two - Letterpress

Keypunch cards and letterpress

Rag paper, satin and beading

Artibooks One - Letterpress

Letterpress on canvas and acrylic paint.


Thursday, July 29, 2010

Show of 80s Works and Collection - 2010

 

Lecture and workshop Exploring Copier Art: August 28th and Sept 25th

Fluxus Performance on as part of the Inter-Florida Fluxus Tour on Sept 14th including: Keith Buchholz, Reid Wood, Reed Altemus, Bibiana Padilla Maltos and myself.

Works in the show are my books Blitzkunst, The Storefront, Copy Art Exhibition discussed previously in this blog. Included are several one-of-a-kind books I made using plastic sleeves with found objects. Also a few letterpress books from experiments I did using unconventional methods/materials, rubberstamp books I made in Europe, assemblings and mail art catalogs. Lots of artistamp works showing the use of the copiers to make stamps - from my Gina Lotta Artistamp Museum collection (see the blog). My computer copier pieces, and fruit series are amongst the prints selected by the curator. A whole case shows videophone prints made with students in my 80s computer graphics classes.

Included are selections of works from other artists from my archives. This is just part of many more items  in my Mail Art and book collection:
96 Tears
Andrew Hayes
Art Hakim
Barbara Cushman’s Color Xerox Calendars
Barbara Wyeth
Bill Wilson
Buster Cleveland
Buz Blurr
Cavellini
Daniel Cabanis
Emilio Morandi - Arte Studio
Eva Lake
Julia and György Galántai - Artpool
Harley
Henryk Gaweski
HR Fricker
Ian Teuty
John Udvardy
Jurgen Olbrich
Leland Fletcher
Liza Jane Norman
Madam X
Mario Lara
Michael Mintz
Pawel Petasz
Polly Esther Nation
Ray Johnson
Reed Altemus
Richard Kostelanetz
Rockola
Ryouski Cohen
SAS Colby
Scarlatina Lust
Ulises Carrión
Vigo Marx
Vittore Baroni
William Gaglione

Also from the Jaffe's permanent collection:
Eugenia Balcells
John Armleder
Tom Ockerse
Judith A. Hoffberg
Lilian Bell
Michael Gibbs
Robert C. Morgan
Plages

A Book About Death - project created by Matthew Rose 2009 (not  80s but they really like this concept) has a whole case filled with the book.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Rockola'd Image

Inter-Florida Fluxus Tour

Performance and events have held a large space in my personal art history and now is the time for a new venture.

You are invited to participate in a 4-day performance tour held in September throughout parts of Florida. Both new and original Fluxus scores will be performed and documented in this fun tour, starting north in St Petersburg and then heading east and south. Keith Buchholz, Reid Wood, Bibiana Maltos and Reed Altemus have enthusiastically signed on already. The itinerary:

9/11 - Artpool Gallery, Toy Storey mail art show opening organized by Jennifer K formerly Jennifer Z - 9:29 pm St Petersburg – contact her for details at jenniferzoe@juno.com

9/12 –Dali Museum St Petersburg and head to East Coast

9/13 –Kennedy Space Center – head down to Jupiter

9/14 –Burt Reynolds Museum - Jupiter

9/14 – Florida Atlantic University - Boca Raton Campus

And planning a DADA night venue - tba

Exit 9/15

FAU is very enthusiastic about the performance event there and it coincides with an exhibition of my 80’s work and a series of guest lectures (see more recent post)  If you would like to participate in this tour or part of it, please contact Ginny Lloyd at ginnylloyd@ginnyonline.com to sign on and for more info. If you want to check out past events I’ve organized see InterDADA84.blogspot.com and ginnylloyd.blogspot.com