A trip to the post office after Christmas found my box crammed with cats, dogs (including an altered Calder postcard) and some various characters in various altered states — including the latest movable piece from Kathy Barnett.Below is a list of the artists shown in this batch:
It is that time of the year and I have started receiving some holiday mail art — including a beautiful hand-painted card from Margo Hill.After sending out mybrain seriesI am starting to see brains in the mail back to me (I love when things like that happen).And if you wondered if an overside playing card can be tuned into a postcard, well, the answer is yes!Below is a list of the artists shown in this posting:
My holiday-themed card/mail art is usually unconventional, and this year is no exception. But what better thing to celebrate in California than with a good wet winter. So far, we are well on track. I spent a rainy weekend indoors carving rubber stamps and printing these handmade postcards. Happy Holidays!
A new commissioned piece for a couple of travel buffs who are collectors of airline ephemera. They spared some of their old airline timetables and allowed me to cut them up to create this collage. While I have a long history of travel-themed art and this is one of my familiar quilt-inspired patterns — this is my first time working with schedules and timetables.
Tofu is a San Francisco artist working primarily in mixed media, collage and landscape painting. His work has included maps, postcard-themed art and mail art projects. In 2013 he began moving away from found ephemera and shifted to making his own material. This started with a series called Collagescapes. With Collagescapes, he starts by painting paper with areas of color representing the palette of a specific place. Next, he cuts up the paper into hundreds of small pieces. The final steps are to randomize the pieces and then reassemble them in various geometric patterns. Collagescapes are both landscape paintings and collages. Tofu’s latest work is a series called Post-Folk Art. It is a nod to the color palettes found in costumes, textiles, pottery and other forms of traditional Kashubian and Polish folk art.
Since 1997 his work has shown in over 40 venues, primarily in California but also in other locations in the United States and abroad. His artwork can be viewed at tofuart.com
