Cat Lynch is in town!

Cat Lynch is back in town with a performance and a lecture in AJ 213 at 6:30 PM. If you are in Muncie, be sure to come!

"Back and Forth: The Art of the Postcard Exchange"

I was fortunate that two friends visited Back and Forth: The Art of Postcard Exchange at the Florence Quarter Gallery at the Southwest University of Visual Art in Tucson, Arizona yesterday. Here are some installation photographs by Cass Fey.

The exhibition is curated by Camden Hardy with works by James Luckett, Cat Lynch, Amelia Morris, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, Jacinda Russell and Kathleen Ryan.

 Anh-Thuy in front of my giant photograph of the Thunderbird Hotel swimming pool in Marfa, Texas.

Detail with water sample.

Anh-Thuy and Cass with the water sample.

Camden's entire Postcard Collective collection spanning four years.

Detail of the collection.




Thank you, Cass, for sending this video and thank you, Nielson (a student at SUVA) for the poetic interpretation.

Postcard Collective: Participation Art

See my blog post on Participation Art and the Postcard Collective here.

Answering Cat Lynch's call for participation at Ucross, Wyoming, August 2013

In case you are curious, the coordinates are: 44°33′39″N 106°32′24″W
and I checked "tragic flaw." Hope it made it through the mail! 

"Constructing James Castle" at the Urban Arts Space

I visited Constructing James Castle at the Urban Arts Space in Columbus today as per Cat Lynch's suggestion. This is the largest show of his work that I have ever seen despite many opportunities in the past. Some observations: 1) His art does not scream Idaho; 2) I am not that interested in the drawings unless they are depicted on atypical paper with strings hanging from them or scraps with other information appearing through the soot; 3) his use of materials to create 3-D objects - ranging from crude books and paper dolls, rope, cardboard, advertisements - were striking. 4) I always knew he was deaf but seeing the references to text and language in his drawings broadened that connection.

This is what a photograph taken of a James Castle constructed object looks like with no distractions in the background and good composition (image via). 

This is what a photograph of the same constructed object looks like while quickly taking a photo in the 5.9 seconds of hiding behind a column before an intimidating security guard drilling holes into my back noticed. For the record, there were no posted signs stating that photographing the exhibition was not allowed.

Overall, I was glad to see the exhibition and visit a new space - one to keep an eye on in the future.

Postcard Collective Fall 2012

One of the best parts about the Postcard Collective is the wide range of items I receive in the mail in addition to forcing myself to create an image 3-4 times a year. The postal clerks have admitted to reading them (thanks for being honest) but I never know if they mean mine or those that are sent to my box.

Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order) by James Luckett, Camilla Oldenkamp, Amelia Morris, Brittany Eaton, Julia Bradshaw, Chris Toalson, Jonell Pulliam, Camden Hardy, Laura Hruska, Cat Lynch, Any-Thuy Nguyen, Cindy Morrissey, Emma Powell, Liu Miao, Daniel Marchand, and Kathleen Ryan. 

There is a new call for entries for Winter 2013 if anyone is interested in submitting!

Postcard Collective Submission Spring 2012

Here is this season's submission. Hopefully the Post Office accepts it! I received a one page magazine in the mail encased in a plastic bag with the above "We Care" message within a couple weeks of Camden Hardy posting this.  I have been very curious about producing something that may or may not make it through the mail especially if it initially looks like only a piece of the original arrived.

Below are some postcards that arrived early in my mailbox.

Jeremy Moore

Cat Lynch

Cat Lynch's Postcard Collective Interview & Letterbox Project

Another Postcard Collective interview is finally up! Cat's two contributions over the course of the last six months are some of the most fascinating items to reach my mailbox. Read more here.

Once upon a time back in November 2010, I contributed (belatedly) to Cat Lynch's Letterbox Project. Earlier this month, I received this in my mailbox announcing its completion.

See all of it here (including contributions by Laura Hruska, Kathleen Ryan, and Hannah Barnes).

Cat Lynch's Five Minute Drawing

(for her to turn into a performance once I finally return it two months later).

In late September (embarrassing to admit), Cat Lynch sent me the following instructions:



I began the task today at 10:12:03 AM and finished it at 10:17:12 AM. I spent the majority of that time running around trying to find my xylene marker. Incidentally, it's taken me twice as long to post this entry.



With this drawing, I'm revealing that I'm obsessively keeping my lists (and counting them - a little over one list a day). I also date the day they were "retired" on the back side (so it became imperative that I do the same to this one). The graph paper and instructions screamed numbers and that's the end product. More on the lists at another time. They continue to grow because of course, a copy of this drawing was included in the list pile. I'm looking forward to seeing what Cat does with it!