CORRESPONDENCES
Double-sided ART composed from art and recycled commercial materials.
Each message is unique, easily displayed, and may be mailed or collected in sets.
Order Correspondences from the artist: claudiavess@google.com.
Double-sided ART composed from art and recycled commercial materials.
Each message is unique, easily displayed, and may be mailed or collected in sets.
Order Correspondences from the artist: claudiavess@google.com.
HISTORY OF CORRESPONDENCES:
In the late 70's mailed art exhibitions became a genre of inclusive, participatory shows across the US. Vess created small compositions for exhibitions out of town including Chicago and New York. Some of her small works traveled; to Nairobi, Kenya in The American Album put together by Ellouise Schoettler, and tBejing, China with Nancy Cusick's Global Focus .
In the 90's Vess and artist/poet Elise Fischer, who had relocated to NYC , began a pictorial correspondence instigated by Fischer who put a stamp on a collage assembled in a plastic sleeve and mailed it to Vess. Their correspondence continues.
Vess first exhibited correspondence art, including new and delivered works loaned by collectors, at the Palisades Post Office in Washington, DC. The post office exhibitions were initiated and managed by artist Sheila Rotner. Both sides of the Mail Art could be seen in the display cabinet that was lined with mirror mylar.
The first collection called Correspondences was exhibited in The Pittsburgh Room, an installation with artist Ruth Levine at Gallery 10. These correspondences, mailed over a couple of years to Levine who had moved to Pittsburgh, were grouped in three hanging panels (two approx 40x60") in window mattes between two sheets of plexiglass. They hung from the ceiling as planar, colored sculpture and reiterated Levine's new address. On the walls, Levine's new paintings included new colors and subjects related to the geography of Pittsburgh. Levine said that receiving art with her name and new address brought home the reality of her new location after more than 30 years in Bethesda, MD.
One of the many ways to exhibit CORRESPONDENCE ART is shown above.
In the late 70's mailed art exhibitions became a genre of inclusive, participatory shows across the US. Vess created small compositions for exhibitions out of town including Chicago and New York. Some of her small works traveled; to Nairobi, Kenya in The American Album put together by Ellouise Schoettler, and tBejing, China with Nancy Cusick's Global Focus .
In the 90's Vess and artist/poet Elise Fischer, who had relocated to NYC , began a pictorial correspondence instigated by Fischer who put a stamp on a collage assembled in a plastic sleeve and mailed it to Vess. Their correspondence continues.
Vess first exhibited correspondence art, including new and delivered works loaned by collectors, at the Palisades Post Office in Washington, DC. The post office exhibitions were initiated and managed by artist Sheila Rotner. Both sides of the Mail Art could be seen in the display cabinet that was lined with mirror mylar.
The first collection called Correspondences was exhibited in The Pittsburgh Room, an installation with artist Ruth Levine at Gallery 10. These correspondences, mailed over a couple of years to Levine who had moved to Pittsburgh, were grouped in three hanging panels (two approx 40x60") in window mattes between two sheets of plexiglass. They hung from the ceiling as planar, colored sculpture and reiterated Levine's new address. On the walls, Levine's new paintings included new colors and subjects related to the geography of Pittsburgh. Levine said that receiving art with her name and new address brought home the reality of her new location after more than 30 years in Bethesda, MD.
One of the many ways to exhibit CORRESPONDENCE ART is shown above.
