NYAB Event - Ray Johnson "Dear Max, Dear Ray, Dear Vince"

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At Andrew Roth
Media: Drawing, Prints

This exhibition presents Ray Johnson's correspondence art spanning the mid-50s to the late 70s, culled from two private archives. It gives evidence to the chameleon-like identity that Johnson manifested in relation to his correspondent. For Earl and Carol Brown, he was working distinctly in a Surrealist/Dadaist tradition, under the shadow of Ernst and Duchamp; while for Vince Aletti, a member of the The New York Correspondence School, he presented himself as a whimsical pornographic provocateur, amending images back and forth through the post, often seeking out introductions to cultural affiliates.

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