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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".
Nov 8, 1989 · Ray Johnson, 62, an ex-convict who dedicated the last 20 years of his life trying to prevent the kind of crimes that had landed him in California jails and prisons since he was 7, has died...
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".
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...
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.
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.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a seminal Pop Art figure in the 1950s, an early conceptualist, and a pioneer of mail art. His preferred medium was collage, that quintessentially twentieth-century art form that reflects the increased (as the century wore on) collision of disparate visual and verbal information that bombards modern man.
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".
