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POST(AL) PANDEMIC Mail Art Exhibition

art work from MKx Modi, Pack, and Stevens

August 23 - September 15, 2021
Reception: September 9th 4 - 6 p.m. (masks are required-thank you)

Is there life—or an artistic vision of it—after gloomy 2020 & 2021? Is the infection demon Rona (Covid-19 & variants) now defeated, battling us...or simply lying in wait to spring again?   Artists were invited to submit their artistic reflections of disease & melancholy, recent lifestyle, decorative optimism & future brightness, plus appreciation of the world's postal systems that kept/keep us together while socially isolated. Mail art is since the 1960s, a reflection of artists from around the world relying on the postal system as an alternative means of producing, distributing, and receiving art. Mail art (aka “correspondence art” or “postal art”) has become a form of artistic practice in which an international network of participants use the mail to make art and share it with others. With letters, postcards, and packages—as well as material that tests the limits of what can be posted—mail artists circumvent traditional elite modes of display and distribution (such as museums and commercial galleries) in favor of the more accessible spaces of the modern post. What better place than a public university like SVSU to share voices from around the world regarding a universal phenomenon. This exhibition creatively sidesteps the art market and political censors to gage the pulse of society.  Forty artists from across the United States, and also Germany, Japan, Brasil, Poland, Austria and Romania submitted work. 

Entrants: Installation images are provided below for out of state and country viewers. Thank you to everyone who entered.

Artist Name (# of pieces)
City State

Country

Jeff Bagato(5) Universal City Texas

USA

Pedro Bericat Zaragoza  

Spain

Guido Bondioli Mesa Arizona

USA

Bonniediva Gurnee Illinois

USA

Maria Do Carmo Both Canoas-RS  

Brasil

Chevlier Daniel C. Boyer New York New York

USA

Lady Silvia Soares Boyer New York New York

USA

Joan Carter San Antonio Texas

USA

Pam Chatfield Lowell Massachusetts

USA

Ryan Chesson Saginaw Michigan

USA

Karen Chew Redwood City California

USA

Sara Clark (2) Saginaw Michigan

USA

Ryosuke Cohen Ashiya  

Japan

Milicent Fambrough San Antonio Texas

USA

Francine Fox Wayne Nebraska

USA

Esme Hanson Saginaw Michigan

USA

Molly Itiupps Grand Blanc Michigan

USA

J. Blake Johnson Saginaw Michigan

USA

Dawn Kehr (4) Bay City Michigan

USA

Hideki Kihata Midland Michigan

USA

Tuba KinayGor Sinop  

Turkey

MkxModi aka Michael King Jr. Grosse Point Park Michigan

USA

Eric Lunde Minneapolis Minnesota

USA

Mike Mosher Bay City Michigan

USA

MuseumN.com Minneapolis Minnesota

USA

MYRRH aka Trudy Reagan Palo Alto California

USA

Andre Pace (5/1) Pheonix Arizona

USA

Pawel Pacholec (2) Graniczna 4/63  

Poland

Susan Pack Hemlock Michigan

USA

Horvath Piroska (5) Innkreis  

Austria

Alexandru Serbanescu Constanta  

Romania

Renato Sclaunich Bolzano  

Italy

Honoria Starbuck PhD Austiin Texas

USA

Gerald Stevens Bay City Michigan

USA

Elizabeth Terry (6) Breckenridge Michigan

USA

James Thomas Richfield Minnesota

USA

Horst Tress (3) Koln  

Germany

ToFu San Francisco California

USA

Nancy Vader McCormick Essexville Michigan

USA

D.S. Wang Santa Barbara California

USA

 

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