"Signed, Sealed, Delivered" Exhibition
Zach Feuer Gallery
This event has ended.
Zach Feuer Gallery presents Signed, Sealed, Delivered, a group exhibition curated by Lauren Marinaro.
The works in Signed, Sealed, Delivered, use mail systems, the internet and representations of mail ephemera to highlight the changes in communication technologies and artists' reaction and relationship to them. From Ray Johnson, often labeled the father of Correspondence Mail Art, and his thousands of collages meticulously created and sent through the US Postal service to Debo Eliers and his references to Twitter, the concise, 140-character form of communication; the artists' in the exhibition highlight variants in non-oral forms of communication, and in doing so force us to examine their relevance and place in society.
Johnson's work in establishing mail art as a recognized genre began a lineage, that includes the work of Cleveland, Beshty, Solomon, and Kawara, of artist's whose pieces are activated by the act of mailing. The function of this practice leaves an element of chance, destruction and democracy to the works, as they are
handled by many and not treated as precious objects for a period of their existence.
The swift changes in communication since the advent of the computer and internet can also be traced through the works in the exhibition. Warhol and Beuys' faxes were a novelty at a point when the fax machine was coming into common use and Calle's e-mail break-up highlights the reality of important human interactions being relegated to short, unemotional paragraphs of text.
[Image: Buster Cleveland "ART FOR UM Vol. 4 Issue 3 (New is Beautiful) [Bill Clinton]" (1993-1998) Mixed media on foamcore, 5.25 x 5.25 in.]
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Schedule
from December 02, 2011 to January 14, 2012
Opening Reception on 2011-12-08 from 18:00 to 20:00