Trashpo Divas & Fake Fine Art (Escondido, California, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Fake Fine Art (Escondido, California, USA)

March 5, 2014 - In recent weeks, Fake Fine Art has made a splash in the Trashpo community with debris from popcult and product marketing she has woven into colorful and ever-so-clever collages. Her effusive homages to DKult and Diane Keys have already attained the status of officially approved network propaganda. In short, West Coast Trashpo has finally arrived with all the promise it offered and minus the vacuity some might have feared.

Do those singing her praises today recall that only a few brief months ago, Fake Fine Art toiled in relative obscurity creating a series of magnificent but not nearly well-enough recognized artistic fakes? I am thrilled to share with you one such piece by Fake Fine Art, never before seen to my knowledge, and destined, no doubt, to become a mail-art classic.

Rather than produce pieces that mimic the styles of well-known artists - such as Moan Lisa's fake Andy Warhol's - I believe our So Cal Mistress of Fakery is making a commentary on aesthetics. Her (not fatal) attraction to Trashpo reveals a tendency toward the concept of anti-art, which could reveal her true nature, if any true nature exists at the core of that Freudian onion. Yet why speak of Freud when Darwin seems at the heart of this art? Here is the reverse side:

But wait! This is signed "Indiana Rogers." A fake Indiana Rogers? Regardless, given the subject matter, I believe that the animal theme used in the work might have been made especially for MinXus-Lynxus. Even if not, it has found a home at that humble blog. Clearly a talented mail-artist, this petite and delicately made work fits perfectly into a petite envelope:

And the reverse:

To be capable of this range of artistic diversity - when compared to the recent Trashpo - one might think multiple personalities were required, if we did not all know better. Many thanks to Fake Fine Art for this FAB piece!

[De Villo Sloan]

Dan, taking the high road here, we know the postmoderns have questioned what they consider to be the myth of the indivdual artist. The idea of the individual artist is merely a construct that furthers the aims of oppressive capitalism and makes art a commodity in the marketplace. Perhaps, perhaps Fake Fine Art has adopted this stance; and she, as I like to say, is a "Lone Gunman."

And the Neoists created the concept of the multiple user identity through Monty Cantsin, Karen Eliot and Luther Blissett, which they spread through the mail-art network. Another Neoist conspiracy? I doubt it.

Then we have the multiple personality disorder.

We know that in the ether and in the mail-art network Fake Fine Art, Indiana Rogers and Mean Sheena have suddenly appeared, as if from nowhere. Are they one? Several? Unconnected individuals?

Perhaps it's only the art that matters. But I have the monkey diapers - the key to the puzzle.

[Dan Mouer]

You might have hit upon a brilliant diagnosis, DVS. Multiple personalities, for sure! I completely agree that both Ms FA and Indiana R share a similar style and their wonderful works seem to be the products of a single beautiful and creative mind. What worries me is that there is a hint of a dark side here, as though in a blink of an eye this purveyor of fine fake art could morph into, well, dare I say, into a very mean Sheena! Lord what a scary thought.

[De Villo Sloan]

Thanks, Carina. If one of those animals is a lynx, then it makes sense indeed.

[Carina]

Her work is a puzzle to me, I love it! Wonderful work for M-L.