Ray Johnson's Work Originally uploaded by caterina.

We went over to Peter's last night for some pizza and wine and he took out his collection of Ray Johnson's work. He has about a dozen collages that are exquisite and beautiful and had a long correspondence with Johnson just before his death. Ray Johnson, if you're not familiar with him, was the originator of Mail Art, and tangential to the Fluxus movement. He was a diffident man, and died of what seems to have been suicide in 1995. After his death he received a great deal of critical attention, and public attention (ArtForum, ABC News, and so on). The pictures are beautiful -- I only had my cameraphone on me at the time -- and Peter is selling the work, if anyone is interested. His site is here and he can be reached at peter [at] schuyff [dot] com.

LINK | 11:23 AM | TB

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