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Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as [1] [2] "New York's most famous unknown artist".
Jan 8, 2015 · The artist Ray Johnson, who drowned 20 years ago at the age of 67, was one of the most revered underground artists of the last half of the 20th century.
Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as "New York's most famous unknown artist".
Once described as New York’s “most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson was a renowned maker of meticulous collages and a pioneering figure in the worlds of Pop, Fluxus, Conceptual Art, and performance in the 1960s.
Mar 23, 2021 · One of the thousands of untitled photographs Ray Johnson shot with a disposable camera on Long Island in the final three years of his life; the body of work was discovered after his suicide in...
Jun 10, 2022 · Ray Johnson (1927-95) was always elusive. When admirers called his work Pop, in the sixties, he relabelled it Chop—a nod to collage, the medium for which he’s best known.
Aug 24, 2022 · The American artist and downtown New York figure Ray Johnson (1927-1995) might have become a household name if he hadn’t burned his early abstract paintings.
Nov 26, 2021 · Featuring radically experimental projects such as the open-ended mailer A Book About Death (1963–65), as well as the fictional “Robin Gallery,” and Johnson’s most iconoclastic performative endeavors, known as “Nothings,” Ray Johnson ℅ reexamines interdisciplinary bodies of work that have traditionally been seen as peripheral to ...
The art of Ray Johnson (American, 1927–1995) was rooted in his prolific correspondence. Throughout his life, he mailed a tremendous number of collages, drawings, and printed matter to friends and colleagues.
Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as "New York's most famous unknown artist".
