Something very special from tictac in far off Starnsberg: A Large Cheese.
A card with cut paper relief that says "Say Cheese" unfolds to reveal an alphabet with letters missing here and there to give the effect…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on March 18, 2015 at 3:04am — 7 Comments
This is Svenja's envelope which sets the bar pretty high for what's inside. Wham! That skull is aheadin' my way. Svenja has jumped on the Underwater Living bandwagon pretty hard. Both her inside and her outside contain watery themes. (You can just run with that however you want…
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Just got back from Diane Keys new show at the Elgin Museum of Modern Art (EMOMA). Wild stuff. I was surprised to see my name in the Catalogue:
ContinueKeys continues to burrow into the layer of duff on the urban floor, a sediment rich with meaning "para aquellos con los ojos." (Trans.: For those with the prescience to find the vision of seeing…
Added by David Stafford on December 29, 2014 at 4:43am — 22 Comments
The International Day of The Banana is now in the rear view mirror but even though I didn't enter the mail art call I did receive some entries including a Banana Surprise from Stripgoose who has never sent me anything before. Surprise! Thank you,…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on December 29, 2014 at 2:30am — 6 Comments
For those few of you who missed Nadine's One Person Show at the Burbank Museum of Unnatural History, here's a quick review from the Burbank Gazetteer:
ContinueWendell-Mojica's stinging portraiture produces a laugh and a wince when we realize balloting may be going on behind our own backs. Through January…
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From the Catalogue:
ContinueLike Diane Keys and Nadine Wendell-Mojica, Bruns is a culler of culture, a diva of detritus who captures the zeitgeist daily in scraps of ephemera. The gestalt of the assemblage IS the art, a snapshot (or scrapshot, if you will) of a flailing culture amid which we flounder, up to our eyes in the onslaught of imagery that…
Added by David Stafford on December 28, 2014 at 7:49pm — 8 Comments
A very cool intro to the work of Frank B. Jones. Reminiscent of the early work of Larry Poons, this kinetic swarm of dancing colors looks as though it was handpainted by Mr. Jones. Quite a feat. Really amazing, Frank. Thank you.…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on December 17, 2014 at 4:51am — 4 Comments
An envelope stuffed with goodies from Alicia Starr Ryan. The Widow Jane. (Not getting the reference but it doesn't matter. The picture is conjure-worthy). Love that sneer. The gun is fake as is the anger but I wouldn't mess with her either way. (Don't you love the way women in movies are never far from their lipstick, even while sleeping or tubbing.) Also a…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on December 13, 2014 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments
Received this week...from Katerina, a Christmas Card and one of the new patterns from the Nikoltsou Collection premiering in Milan this Spring. She also sent also some snaps from the 21st Annual IUOMA Cotillion Ball where she wore this very pattern. Katerina, I was sorry to hear about the buffet mishap. Thank you, and Mele Kalikimaka.…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on December 12, 2014 at 4:51am — 5 Comments
Suus in Mokum sent me a packet made up of three of her musical watercolors. Of course, my relation with Suus in primarily a business one. She sends me the patterns and I help them find their way into the House of Suus collection. So far we've managed to net over 30 million. That's pixels but down the road they could turn into krüken (the official imaginary…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on November 10, 2014 at 10:44pm — 3 Comments
Christina and Jurgen of 5Blanks Studios have both sent me cool stuff recently. This is Christina's offering:
He seems friendly enough for a zombie. Or perhaps he's arrived for the Day of the Dead or perhaps he's a she...Lots…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on October 15, 2014 at 5:38am — 1 Comment
Some recent arrivals. First, just two of the jam-packed envelope of Diane Keys trasheratory. (Diane don't come round much here anymore so I can say pretty much anything I want about her.) On the left is her artistic challenge by way of the Oats and Dairy Council. On the right, my entry. I broke most of the rules so I probably won't get my Tweets distributed…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on September 29, 2014 at 10:40pm — 7 Comments
Diane Keys and I are playing "Conjure This!" She said: Conjure Wonder Sauna Hot Pants with Batwings! and I complied (sorta, see below) and I said to her Conjure The Oily Doily, aka a moist towelette sold exclusively in steak and lubester restaurants and, well, see above. She also added some wonderful photos of her as a child. Luckily this stage has almost…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on August 16, 2014 at 11:28pm — 9 Comments
My friend Christie Green of Radicule asked me a couple of months ago if I wanted to do a show in September (the fifth) in her new gallery. I said sure not remembering that I'm not an artist (in any traditional sense), have nothing to tell people about the topic at hand and in general am…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on August 3, 2014 at 8:36pm — 3 Comments
I received a really great package of stuff from KDJ but I'm going to concentrate on just the photos she sent because they're all of me and I'm extremely Davecentric. No surprise there. Alas, this is not quite the socko thank you that I'd hoped for but it's only my third video.....so next time....
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on August 3, 2014 at 12:50am — 3 Comments
A giganto barrel of work from Tic Tac, our friend in far off Starnberg. With a collection this big you could start a museum which I have done and now I have to write the copy for the exhibition catalogue. Starting in the upper left hand corner three images become a "Vagrant Story" of the viewer's own weaving. Because the photos will probably be too small to see…
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Jay Block sent me this deceptively simple photo collage, an elegant blending of imagery that hints at the confused sensuousness trapped beneath the victorian finery. Great color palette. It's like a sachet in your great-grandmother's underwear drawer. I love the range of expressions in the group. Clearly they were instructed to look like proud hardwood…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on July 28, 2014 at 5:36am — 2 Comments
New Arrivals. Nadine Wendell-Mojica sent me this PeeWee goes Headless pc which I have duly appropriated. Also in the envelope was this:
Note the swiveling hand. The text reads: "This is Terry; Rehab Counselor at…
ContinueAdded by David Stafford on July 22, 2014 at 4:57am — 2 Comments
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