Monday, August 19, 2019

155 / J. Tomas Lopez / USA


This image is the last photo I made of Kevin. He knew he was days from dying. The series began with his hands over his eyes, which was my 2009 postcard. This image is Kevin Triumphant in the face of death.

J Tomas Lopez
Professor and Chair, Cooper Fellow
Department of Art & Art History
University of Miami, FL

154 / Karen Yeigh / Australia

‘Transitions’– Mixed media collage, hand cut, layered on Thai paper, 45 x 45cm.

153 / Carol Todaro / USA

Instagram: caroltodaroart

152 / Julie Blankenship / USA

151 / Jane Wang / USA



Jane was the first to curate an ABAD after the NYC show. The exhibition was at Mobius in Boston, MA in 2009. 

She sent 500 hand threaded cards for this 10th Anniversary show.

150 / Bibiana Padilla Maltos / USA, Mexico



149 / Patricia Jean O’Brien / USA

148 / Kara Petraglia / USA




147 / Juliette Pestel / The Netherlands

@atelierjuliettepestel

Friday, August 16, 2019

146 / Heather Matthew / Australia

 

Heather was curator of ABAD Australia at the Tweed River Art Gallery in Murwilllumbah in 2013.

Friday, August 9, 2019

145 / Aleksey D'Havlcyon / Spain, France


144 / Patricia Denys / USA




Patricia writes: “Rest. Rest. You are Free. You are Home.
Tilikum1/6/17

Always remember Tilikum the Orca imprisoned at SeaWorld and Topsy, the Elephant imprisoned at Coney Island; lives lived against their will. 

It is unlikely that you will ever have a day, not to mention experience your entire life, on the level of suffering endured by animals in containment; on factory farms and in the public display industries.”

143 / José Rufino / Brazil

 @atelier.rufino

142 / Jennifer Kosharek / USA


141 / Branka Djordjevic / Luxembourg

140 / Matthew Rose / France

Matthew sent a collection of hundreds of handmade cards, every one unique! He is the originator of the ABAD Project which began in Soho, NY in 2009.

139 / Peter Westman / Sweden

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138 / Coco Gordon / USA



 
From Coco Go (an original member of Ray Johnson's Correspondance School):
"My entry starts on the written side of the card which mentions the onion
(…"not with corduroy or onion…”)
So on the flip side is our REONION a permutation of our original 1981 REUNION,
that after the reunion
Became the Reonion, then became the Rayon when the contents he [Ray Johnson] gave me
in 6 large cartons of mail art, 
I placed onto shelves to try on, & we did several ties with different visitors.
(Rayon means Shelves in French) - Then he changed the name to the RAGON, 
which as a gay person I took to mean Rag On after which he kept on sending me clues 
I didn’t  understand until his death. 
He had called me & even left messages on my answering machine 
over & over & sent me  strange letters with Gaugin walking on water, we sent back 'n forth from 1990 on 
Asking me, me did I “Get It?”  & I always said no,

Well... it was Ray Gone!!

 So I found letters he had sent me for my entry this time around."

137 / Larry Lytle / USA


136 / Hope Kahn / USA

 

135 / Ramona Palmisani / Italy

 

134 / Ann Woodward / USA


133 / Tara Pillich / USA


132 / Maria Spector / USA


131 / Barbara Lubliner / USA



This is a frame from Barbara's video " No More Dy(e)ing" which will be screened at the exhibition.
She also sent postcards of the image.

130 / Jamie Newton / USA


 
instagram: concretewheels
music & books: 3acreTract(s)

129 / Sylvia Medina / Mexico

FB: Sylvia Medina Art
Instagram: sylviamed05

128 / Linda Stillman / USA

Entitled "Elms for Ray."


127 / Gregory Comodore / USA


126 / Helen Marie Murphy / USA


125 / Maggie Nightingale / UK

This is a frame from Maggie's video "Parsley" which will be screened at the exhibition.
She also sent postcards of the image.

This video is a stop-motion animation of a woman undergoing a painful transition with a screeching soundtrack of crickets
"I had a painful dream that the benign cyst in my brain was actually a living cricket-like creature, wanting to grow larger and let its legs grow through my body. The realisation of my feelings somehow lessened the anxiety and pain I experienced knowing it was there and always will be."

124 / Patrick Lears / UK

123 / Carrie Crow & John Grenier / USA



122 / Vi Vona / USA



121 / Leslie Atkins / USA

120 / Flora Kao / USA


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