Needlepoint 2618

Needlepoint 2618
Originally uploaded by Mary Bogdan

There's something very charming about this one, very harmonious... the cours and the forms working together, it's quite structured... but was created without a pre-conceived idea...

Postcard Exhibit: Connections at ElderStreetGallery Houston TX: p1

Postcard Exhibit: Connections at ElderStreetGallery Houston TX: p1
Originally uploaded by Mary Bogdan

Postcard Exhibit: Connections at ElderStreetGallery Houston TX: p1

I'll be participating with 24 original postcards. Each created on existing printed postcards, using mixed media.

Elder Street Gallery hosts “Connections” a benefit for the English Speaking Union Houston Branch - Shakespeare Competition. Artists from 21 countries and 25 US states will be reaching out through art sent on postcards. All work $25. Opening reception Oct 17, 5-9 pm. Closing Oct 31, 2009.

For more information on "Connections" show at Elder Street Gallery, visit the website at www.elderstreetartist.com. Elder Street Gallery is located at 1101 Elder Street, Suite 103, Houston,TX 77007.

Title of Show: Connections: Art Reaching Out From Around The World

Mail art was popularized in the '60s by Ray Johnson of the New York Correspondence School, and many contemporary artists use the art form to express themselves.
All postcard art created on an existing 4"x6" post card or a 5” X 9” post card.
Materials will vary, depending on the technique you choose. Artists create with any technique, and all media, including collage, markers, crayons, pen and ink, colored pencils, rubber stamps, tempera, acrylic, watercolor and printmaking.

The English Speaking Union Houston Branch is a non profit organization dedicated to international relations between the UK and the other countries of the world and the celebration of all things British.

My submitted postcards:
p1. Francis Bacon, Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh 1, 1956
p2. Petits Formats Noel
p3. Kuniyoshi, Hatsuhana prays under a waterfall, c 1842
p4. Josef Wittlich, Madonna mit Jesuski
p5. Tate St Ives, Porthmeor Beach
p6. Stuart Pearson Wright, JK Rowling, 2005
p7. Skull of Nesperennub, priest of Khons
p8. Alexandre P Lobanov
p9. Turbine Hall before conversion
p10. Prunella Clough, Land : Ochre, 1998
p11. Stanley Spencer, Neighbours, 1936
p12. Jerome Fortin, Autoportraits
p13. Claude Simard, Réflections, 2009
p14. World Press Photo 08
p15. Sunlight Soap Series
p16. Elsa Schiaparelli, Evening Dress, c 1935
p17. Around Bridport, Dorset
p18. Engine Gallery, TO
p19. Joan Miro, For Adrien Maeght, 1965
p20. Claude Monet, Water Lilies, c 1920
p21. Frederick Witherington, Fete in Petworth Park, 1935
p22. Christiane Klappert, Sweet, 2004
p23. Shirley Katz, Men in Showers, Women in Jars
p24. Dietrich Vieux Charles III, Count Zborowski in a Mercedes, 1924

See the whole series: marybogdan.com/MBWebsite/postcards.html

MOMA acquires A Book About Death postcards

MOMA acquires A Book About Death postcards
Originally uploaded by Mary Bogdan

The recent show, A Book About Death, organized by Matthew Rose and exhibited at the Emily Harvey Foundation in NYC proved to be a great success! It was an open call for artists, and the image above is the front of the postcard that I sent in for the show.

It was really a tribute to Ray Johnson (his original Book About Death), and a “global exploration of death”. Each artist contributed 500 postcards to the show, which created an “unbound Book About Death”. Visitors to the gallery were then able to select some or all of each postcards to create their own book about death.

MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York) just acquired a complete set of postcards from the show! So, I can say that I’ve been “collected” by MOMA, and that makes life pretty good! I think the artists involved in the show are excited about this–because even though mail art operates mostly outside traditional establishments, isn’t it true that we all want our artwork to be seen, we all have a voice we want heard, and isn’t it nice to be recognized a little?

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Mary Bogdan [154]: abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-08-1...

EXHIBITION AT THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY. OPENING: THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009. EXHIBITION: 10 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2009.

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 500 POST CARDS EACH TO CREATE AN UNBOUND BOOK ABOUT DEATH.

Steven Jobs & me 0351

Steven Jobs & me 0351
Originally uploaded by Mary Bogdan

Steven Jobs and one of my assemblage pieces called "Spiritual Path"...the backside actually... It's in our living room...

See the whole series here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marybogdan/sets/72157621205984483.

we feel fine : book

we feel fine : book
Originally uploaded by Mary Bogdan

Very Very proud and pleased and happy happy to have been chosen to participate in this fabulous book, "we feel fine, an almanac of human emotion" by Jonathan Harris and sep Kamvar of Google fame... exploring the personal feelings of millions, and I am one of those million people... see next photo, showing my page with my image included, from my LOVE [ME] TENDER series...

happy happy

here's the image chosen:

Steven Jobs and ME :) 0927cc

Steven Jobs and ME :) 0927cc
Originally uploaded by Mary Bogdan

Steven Jobs and ME :)

Finally my Steven Jobs doll arrived in the mail today. I am Happy Happy Happy Happy....

photos taken by Sol Lang, hubby.

ps, we actually have the same wardrobe ;)

humumentary | documentomme 00110

humumentary | documentomme 00110
Originally uploaded by Mary Bogdan

humumentary | documentomme 00110

See the whole series on flickrriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/humumentary

I find the small hairs of the plant roots reflecting the teabag strings very intriguing, one natural one man-made... and how the folds in the coffee filter simulate the veins in the leaves... there's a beautiful harmony here, even in it's diversity... and contradictions...

see BIG: farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3412114468_e25ba513cd_b.jpg