August 2013

Courtyard Gallery in Asheville, NC, Features 8th Mail Art Show

The Courtyard Gallery in Asheville, NC, will present Anything Goes - Everything Shows, the 8th Annual Mail Art Show, on view from Aug 3 through Sept. 27, 2013. A reception will be held on Aug. 3, from 6-9pm.

The exhibition will feature dozens of works by Asheville artists and hundreds of art submissions from throughout the US and the world from artists that were encouraged to demonstrate or explore imagery of any kind.

Anything Goes—Everything Shows is just that, an uncensored free style mail art show. Mail art is art that uses the postal system as a medium. Mail artists typically exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters; zines; rubberstamped, decorated, or illustrated envelopes; artist trading cards; postcards; artistamps; faux postage; mail-interviews; naked mail; friendship books, decos and three-dimensional objects.

Fundamentally, mail art in the context of a Mail Art Network is a form of conceptual art. It is a “movement” with no membership and no leaders. Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. The term “mail art” can refer to an individual message in the form of illustrated letters; zines; rubberstamped, decorated or illustrated envelopes; artist trading cards; postcards; artistamps; faux postage; mail-interviews; naked mail; friendship books, decos and three-dimensional objects.

The Courtyard Gallery, located at the Phil Mechanic Building, in the River Arts District of Asheville, where it shares space with the Flood Gallery Arts Center.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, contact Carlos Steward at 828/273-3332 or visit (www.ashevillecourtyard.com).

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