Mail Out — Mail In

I’ve been sending out a lot of mail art lately and the best part is, I get all this great stuff in return.   Here are some of the recent pieces received:

1. Esther Kwan – California
2. Pamela Gerard– California
3. Janet Elliott – California
4. Crackerjack Kid – New Hampshire
5. Meral Agar– Turkey 
6. Dori Singh – California
7. Peter Müller – Germany
8. Valdor – Catalunya, Spain
9. Marina Salmaso– Denmark
10. R.F. Côté– Québec, Canada
11. Katerina Nikoltsou – Greece 
12. Dame Mailarta– British Columbia, Canada
13. Mindaugas  Žuromskas

Minimal Mail and More…

The latest batch of mail art I have received includes some seasonal pieces like a spring print from Meral Ağar in Turkey and some Poisson ‘d’Avril (April Fools) mail from Pamela Gerard (San Francisco, not France).  There is also some rather minimalist mail art from Lours Postal in France as well as collages made from paint samples by Marina Salmaso in a Blå Station envelope that arrived from Denmark.   The latest arrivals shown here are:

1. Meral Ağar
2. Gregg Biggs, Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera
3. Pia Zaragoza
4. Pamela Gerard
5. Jennifer Utter
6. Lours Postal
7. Marina Salmaso

The Other Winter Holidays

The Winter Holiday season is in full swing in my mail box.  No valentines yet, but we have a commemoration of the Super, Blood, Blue Moon Eclipse, more new year’s greetings, a feisty Ground Hog Day postcard and also the Year of the Dog.  Perhaps the gentleman from the Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera are obscure vice presidents trying to get in on the Presidents Day action.  

1. Maureen Forys
2. Meral Ağar
3. James Cline
4. Fleur Helsingor
5. Lubomyr Tymkiv
6. Sally Wassink
7. Eduardo Cardoso
8. Gregg Biggs

Just arrived from Turkey

When you plan a mail art show and send out a call for artists you have to set a deadline. I knew, inevitably, that some pieces would be mailed in late.  Well, I am not the DMV, so I managed to get the stragglers in the show.  We had such a big response for the Pink Mail Art Show that we had to even use a second wall.  The show went up last week, we had a great opening reception for Pink Week.  Look what was in the post office box yesterday — these three wonderful pieces from Turkey (from Meral Ağar, Hilal Turşoluk and Öznur Kepçe.  I won’t be getting to back to Sacramento for a while so we only get to see these three pieces online.  But if we have a show next year, we have the first three pieces….

If you are in Sacramento, the show is on view at WAL (Warehouse Artists Lofts) at 1108 R Street in Sacramento until December 10, 2015.