About Volatile [redux] Art, Books and Editions

Exhibition Checklist

Bern Porter

Run On, 1975

Found poetry; a compilation of found photographs, text, and technical diagrams. 7.5x5.5 inches, offset, b&w illus., 68 pp, paper, 1st prtg, signed and numbered edition of 250, 1st prtg. Self-published

John M. Bennett

Be Blank / Be Bland, 2023

Clay brick with sand blasted text, recto-verso, 8x3.5x4.25 inches, open edition.

Kathe Burkhart

Ask Me about Being a Dominant Woman, 2010

Bumper sticker, two-color offset printed on crack and peel paper, 3.5 x11 inches, 1st prtg., Momenta Art, NYC, NY.

Kimberly Burleigh

Device & Devices, 2002

Computer animation. Music: "Implements of Actuation" a collaborative composition for a percussionist and a computer by Mara Helmuth and Allen Otte. Editor: Russ Johnson, running time 3:54

S. J. Curtis

Rewind, 1998

Offset printed poster, b&w illus., 23.5x16.75 inches, edition of 2000, self-published, London, England.

Fred Ellenberger

Seven Virtues, 2023

Screen printed T-shirt.

John Evans

MORE URSULINE DUCKS, 1977

Mail art. Collage, verso rubber stamped with hand-written notation: Avenue B School of Art, 199 E. 3rd NUEVA YORK, 10009 777 3438 JUL 1 1977 / MORE URSULINE DUCKS, 11x7.75 inches.

Karen Finley

World Tour 1989, 1989

Performance souvenir t-shirt. Found Disney World t-shirt altered by the artist and thrown to the audience during the performance.

Heinz Gappmayr

Zahlentext, 1991

Screenprint, 8.25x11.75 inches, signed and numbered edition of 60 (10/60), print issued with the special edition of Opus - Heinz Gappmayr / Catalogue Raisonne of the Visual and Theoretical Texts, Dorothea van der Koelen Verlag, Mainz.

Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin

Real Apple, 2005

Color photograph in artist metal sculptural frame, 6.75x3.75x1.5 inches.

Gregory Green 

Pipe Bomb #5 (New York), 1992

Steel pipe, egg timer, batteries, electrical wire, duct tape, certificate and instruction/signed certificate in pipe chamber, 13.5x4.25x4.25 inches.

Dick Higgins

Thousand Symphonies / Symphony #470, 1969/1992

A symphony in three movements, three pages of sheet music, each 22.5x17 inches, signed and dated. Score notation made by shooting the sheet music with a machine gun - then emphasizing the notation with back painting.

Davi Det Hompson

FREE?, 1984

Two color silkscreen, 69x45 inches, as issued folded to 11x17 inches, the first issue of AQUI a single image large-format magazine, edition of 300. AQUI, NYC.

Hudson 

USA, circa 1980s

Mail art. Hand painted postcard, handwritten text and collage verso, 8x5 inches, mailed to For Boys & Girls Only (Peter Huttinger), return address HBTO, POB 10121, [Chicago, IL] 60610, post mark illegible.

Ray Johnson

Nice Scene courtesy Roebucks, 1971

Offset printed postcard, b&w illus., 6x4 inches, from the Image Bank Postcard Show organized by Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov (Mr. Peanut) in 1971 (October 13 – 30) for the Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia with the cooperation and assistance of The National Gallery of Canada and the Canada Council. This postcard is from the box set published by Coach House Press, Toronto, Canada.

Miranda July

Poster to be ripped, 2017

Offset printed poster, b&w illus., 19.75x14 inches, Printed Matter, NYC, NY

Poster ripped and carefully hung by Sso-Rha Kang, September 4, 2024.

Pat Larter

ARTART ACTION "SHOOT", 1984

Mail Art/Postal Performance, two b&w photographs with collage, each 5.5x3.5 inches. Verso: typed text ARTART ACTION "SHOOT" Aug. 1984 and rubber-stamped ART TART, /FEMAIL ART / SELF EXPOSURE, correspondence to John Held, Jr. [Envelope, 3.75x5.75 inches - not exhibited]

Cary Leibowitz a/k/a Candyass

A Yard Full of Homos for DC… / Won't U Sign My Dance Card…, 1992

Yardstick, printed recto-verso, edition of 500, signed artist proof, 1.25x36 inches, House of Leibowitz, NYC.

Zoe Leonard

The 1998 Bearded Lady Calendar, Starring Jennifer Miller, 1998

Offset printed calendar, model Jennifer Miller, b&w illus., 17x11 inches, spiral bound, published by Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland.

Marilyn Monroe (subject)

Monroe Golden Dreams Calendar, 1952

Color offset printed photograph tipped onto a printed cardboard flat with a 1953 pull-away calendar, Tom Kelley photograph from 1949, color illus., 17x10 inches, publisher unknown, USA.

Marilyn Monroe (subject)

Marilyn Monroe Golden Dreams Calendar - Black Negligee, 1954

Color offset printed photograph mounted on printed cardboard flat with a 1955 pull-away calendar, Kelley, Tom, photographer 1949, color illus., 17x10 inches, USA.

Kay Rosen

Black-kat, 1995

Two postcards: Offset printed exhibition announcement card, Black-kat, b&w illus., 3.5x5.5 inches, Kay Rosen. Drawings, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, March 16 – April 23, 1995; Offset printed tourist postcard, Sunrise Gulf of Mexico, with hand-written text by the artist discussing the history of the exhibition announcement card, color illus., 4x5.74 inches. 

Hannah Wilke

untitled [Re: Hannah Wilke / Claes Oldenburg], 1991

Over-printed photocopy in ticket pocket folder, signed with notation, photocopy 11x8.5 inches, ticket holder 12x9 inches.

May Wilson

untitled, circa 1968

Stencil painted found photograph, 6.25x4.25 inches, signed verso.