Ian C Dengler

Male

Del Rio, TX

United States

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:
age 10
My Website (without http://):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artistamp/photos/album/1606785151/pic...
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
I put my braquesque 10 yr old painting in the school parents' night show and ..blaah! people would ask me: " but what does it MEAN??" oh. I didn't get the message across. So I started adding words. Mail art is the balance of reification and the restricted rhetoric of ordinary language (pictures 'n words). In music, words make opera happen; the same rule applies in the visual arts.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
cargan@stanfordalumni.org

119 Pauline Ave
Del Rio Tx
USA 78840

Comment Wall:

  • Valentine Mark Herman

    Dear Ian ,

    Welcome to IUOMA!

    It's a great bunch of folks and I hope that you enjoy exchanging Mail Art with us. I'm your Mentor, and if I can help to ease you into IUOMA in any way, then please don't hesitate to ask and I'll try to explain what's going on and how IUOMA works.

    If you haven't already done so, I suggest you take a look at the 'New to IOUMA' page (4th from the left at the top of the IUOMA home page) where you'll find a 10-point Introductory Guide that should give you an insight as to what is going on.

    Would you like to exchange some Mail Art with me? If so, send me something to 1 Rue de la Vieille Fontaine, F-11130 Sigean, France, and I PROMISE to send you something back.

    BUT if you want me, or anyone else in IUOMA, to send you any snail mail Mail Art back, you're going to have to provide us with your postal address. If people have to ask you for it, then it gets to be a bit of an unecessary hassle for one and all.

    Hoping you enjoy your IUOMA days. Whether you find any meaning in what you send and get is entirely up to you. But, be warned, Mail Art & IUOMA can be seriously addictive.

    Regards, Val Herman

  • Valentine Mark Herman

    The Tulip Fairy has arrived safely in France: thank you.

    She said that she wasn't sure that she would get here, because it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish your stamps from those of UPS.

    I told her that your stamps are much more interesting, and she agreed.

    She also asked me to mail you something back, and I agreed to that too.

    So one day soon, you'll get some mail from me.

    Thaks again, and...

    Bon weekend, Val

  • Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

    Earthling, this is the last but certainly not the least welcome message to IUOMA you receive. I’m a celestial mail artist living in a heavenly corner of the faraway universe called Republik van Patland. When you joined IUOMA on June 20 I was unable to welcome you on board.  At the time I was in a celestial journey far beyond the Milky Way. Now, back to planet Earth, I´d love to be the other end when you decide it’s the right time to start trading snail mail art. If this is the case at the time your envelope should read as follows:

    The Celestial Scribe

    Terrene Embassy

    The Celestial Republik van Patland

    Caixa Postal 24827

    Curitiba-PR

    80510-970

    Brazil

    II look forward to see a piece of yours in our terrene mailbox. I will do my homework after receiving yours. This is a celestial promise. I’m Patricio, Celestial Scribe & Republik van Patland official envelope provider.

  • Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

    Mail art trade?   Heaven is ready when you are....this scribe too!...

  • Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

    Mine is not only an extrageocentric metaphor, but an extraegocentric as well.  Celestial beings are supposed to build metaphors that way, aren´t we?

  • Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

    Choosy expectation makes me to stay close to the mail box expecting your choosy mail art :-))))))))))))))

  • Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

    I´m not too choosy about yoga students, specially when they are of feline origin.  my wife is a yoga teacher.  She just get in love with the feline trikonasana  To bridge the gap Del Rio-Curitiba is now an ongoing process with no end on sight and it shows!  Now is homework time this side.  I´ll keep you posted.  

  • Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

    A celestial homework is traveling northbound.  Keep me posted

  • M. Nelson

    Riddles are always good, Ian. I look forward to seeing what you send me.

  • Dr Chris James

    I like your work, very thought provoking. It seems to take the whole of cultural life and turn it into a sardonic message deconstructing  everything we have come to believe through western philosophy. Almost a cartoon!    Maybe, it is not meant to be so deep?  But, I guess once you give something to the world [especially the world of art] people will make all kinds of narratives from it.

  • Valentine Mark Herman

    Can we have a 'Pudding' stamp, please?

  • Bruno Cassaglia - poetArtist

  • Bruno Cassaglia - poetArtist

    Ciao !!! Grazie! vuoi anche far parte dei miei gruppi " black and white " e  "performances" ?

    ti abbraccio , bruno

  • Amy Irwen

    Hi Ian! didn't know you were here! course with over 2000 (approaching 3000) I can't keep up ;-).....I will send you something.....

    ummm....ties????.....be seeing you in the mail..... *!*

  • Jean Claude SARPI

    Hi, for IUOMA members, we are the owners of an art gallery in Marseille, France, and organizing a Mail Art exhibit ''not for sale'' from June 3 to 30, 2014. The theme is: "Mermaids in the port, queens of the sea..." We invite you to participate and send an artist's letter. Free technique. On a postcard or any other object of your choice. Illustration, address and stamp on the same page. Deadline for hanging: May 10, 2014.   Send a work in mail format as original as possible. Send to: JC SARPI -  LE LAB 3 rue Bussy l'indien 13006    Marseille France
    .We will answer each mail by sending Mail Art. Looking forward to presenting your works.  Thank you for giving the information to all the persons who may participate to the project. Look at http://lelab13006.blogspot.fr

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Thank you, Ian,

    very special "Odyssey" mail art arrived today in Greece...

    It is blogged here:

    Ian Dengler must know it is traveling time for me :-)

  • Amy Irwen

    Happy Happy Day Ian...

  • Amy Irwen

    I just love your sense of humor and aesthetics...thank you for the postcard...

  • Celestino Neto

  • Cernjul Viviana María

  • Thom Courcelle

    I've just spent an inordinate amount of time clicking through your collection of artistamp photos and chuckling out loud… I can't even choose a favorite--they're all wonderful! Thanks for your sense of humor and great artistry, Ian! ...Wow.

  • Carlos I. Botana

    MAILART PROJECT

    Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
    Size: Free
    Technique: Free
    Deadline: August 15, 2016
    Exhibition: September, 2016
    No sales. No jury. No return
    The work is publisehed in the "blog": mailartlasmeninasdecanido.blogspot.com
    Send your work to:
    Carlos I. Botana
    C/. Javier López López
    Nº 11 - portal 2 - 3º E
    15009 - A Coruña - Spain
  • Bruno Cassaglia - poetArtist

  • Bruno Cassaglia - poetArtist

  • enrique fernandez pastor

    "I prefer to be a man of paradoxes that a man of prejudices", Jean Jacques Rousseau.

  • Petrolpetal

    Mail out!
  • Richard Canard

    13.09.16 Dare Mister Ian C. Dengler, ...I haven't really scoped today's offering but I know it's gonna be another classic ( "One-A-Day-Classic"  (class act). Do you read a lot? Sincelery, Richard Canard

  • Lensky

    Wooow.. I would draw you something

  • Ruud Janssen

  • Doctor dB Cooper

  • Bonniediva

    Thanks for the beautiful vintage post card, Ian! You know what I love! Your artistamps are wonderful, as well. Hugs, Bonniediva

  • Richard Canard

    09.03.18 Dare Ms. Carolyn Cline (as if we were not on Mister Ian C. Dengler's back porch),  ...yeah, me too. I have a hard time just keeping up with what seems to be a daily proliferation.... my response is  usually scratching my  head & then, having to goggle the so-called "philosopher-of-the-day".  SinCelery, Richard Canard

  • Maria Consuelo Guacuto Blanco

    Hello  Ian
    I invite you to my proposal, to which I would love you to participate.Nuevo%20Provecto%20ARTE%20CORREO.docx
    regards
    Maria Consuelo Guacuto

  • Jayne Barket Lyons

    Hi Ian! I’m new to this whole mail art scene, and up ‘til now I wasn’t sure what artistamps were. Wow...very interesting and creative! Wish there was a button to “favorite” them all in one fell swoop! I’m going to “friend” you, if thst’s okay. And perhaps you may want to swap mail art with this chickie from Minnesota. 

  • Mike Parsons

    sending Mail ART to you IAN 

  • Jayne Barket Lyons

    Hi Ian ~ Happy Monday! Sending mail your way...