So, i woke up on Saturday, rushed to Clerkenwell for a trim and then realised I had the whole day ahead of me. A novelty really. But i was kinda stuck. I phoned Miss May (sort of big sis) who was in town and on her way to a gallery or two. Miss May, The Architect and myself ended up in a cool gallery near Spittlefields Called 'Raven Row', check here for the Dezeen review, nice photography (very considered). Dezeen.
The exhibition was on Ray Johnson, who has been described as the most significant unknown artist in the postwar period. An artist who trained alongside Rauschenberg and Twombly at the radical Black Mountain College under the tutelage of Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning, Johnson had an uncanny knack of shrugging off the prevailing concepts of the time. By 1955 he had burnt every abstract painting he'd ever made preferring to work in collage. His predilection for being an outsider culminated in the The New York Correspondence School, a base for his lo-fi drawings, poems and collages, which he posted to friends.
Here are some pics of the exhibition, sorry about the quality, my camera was in Tokyo (obviously without me). Hope you like.
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Luddite Lucite
DEAR NOT READY, NOTHING READY
did you get the connection
between the "crack up" and
the "joke" that steve mcqueen
told about the airline stewardess
and the lucky lend ease...
Just wandering around
rain rien nevermind
Original Ray Johnson
pact of paper dolls
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