"Stroke Me"
Monday, August 19, 2019
157 / Meryl Meisler / USA
This is a cropped version of photograph I took of Ray Johnson signing my address book at I.C.P. in March 1977.
156 / Beth Grabowski / USA
The title is "A True and Perfect Inventory–January 1, 1730"
It is based on an excerpt from the inventory of possessions recorded at the death of a distant ancestor, Dr. Ludolph Bodein, a Quaker residing in Kent County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
www.bethgrabowski.com
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.
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.
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
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.”
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.
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…”)
(…"not with corduroy or onion…”)
So on the flip side is our REONION a permutation of our original 1981 REUNION,
that after the 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,
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."
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.
She also sent postcards of the image.
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