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Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson
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ISBN 9781944929114. Matthew Marks Gallery. hb. clothbound. 192 pages, 82 colour, 5 b/w. 17.1 x 22.9 cm.

Author: Johnson, Rays

Ray Johnson (1929–1995) studied painting at the legendary Black Mountain College, where he met and befriended many of the leading avant-garde figures of the day. He moved to New York in 1949, and within a few years he had rejected painting in favor of collage. That medium’s combinatory principles became central to his art, which grew to encompass performance, conceptual art, and sculpture.
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ISBN 9781944929114. Matthew Marks Gallery. hb. clothbound. 192 pages, 82 colour, 5 b/w. 17.1 x 22.9 cm.

Author: Johnson, Rays

Ray Johnson (1929–1995) studied painting at the legendary Black Mountain College, where he met and befriended many of the leading avant-garde figures of the day. He moved to New York in 1949, and within a few years he had rejected painting in favor of collage. That medium’s combinatory principles became central to his art, which grew to encompass performance, conceptual art, and sculpture.

Ray Johnson (1927-95) was a seminal Pop artist, a proto-conceptualist and a pioneer of mail art. This volume collects 42 collages made by Johnson between 1966 and 1994, most never exhibited or published before, with a new essay by writer Brian Gooch, who first came into contact with Johnson when he began receiving unsolicited mail art shortly before the artist's death. The collection of works in this volume shows the artist at his most expansive, combining art history with celebrity, word with image and the personal with the universal.