Box 9
Contains 226 Results:
Mail Art: E.F. Higgins III, New York, New York to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1982 February 18
Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: sender's return address, interlocking blocks design, "STAMP ART". Custom circular date stamp (CDS) dated February 15 1982 with winged nut, bugle, and "DOO-DA POCHTA". Artist stamps in triangular designs. US Letter sheet enclosed. Color photocopied collage of text, maps, graphs, and images. "DOO DA POSTAGE WORKS", "MAIL ART BY E.F. HIGGINS III". Inscribed to Bakhchanyan.
Mail Art: Dirk Hine, Bloomington, Indiana to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1984 October 19
Man with index finger raised an energy radiating from its tip. Recipient's address handwritten in silver metallic marker with purple outline.
Mail Art: Alex Igloo, New York, New York to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1980 December 8
Mail Art: Alex Igloo, New York, New York to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, undated
Ring-bound calendar for 1982. 13 cards (1 per month plus cover). Collage of text and images. Birth dates for artists and significant historical figures for each month listed. No cover, sender's return address rubber stamped in black ink on reverse of last card.
Mail Art: Kasumi Iizumi, Tokyo, Japan to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1985 August 6
Collage of photograph with blue and white geometric design. "A MOVING SCULPTURE" handwritten in blue ink. Rubber stamp in blue ink: "MAIL ART '85". Rubber stamp in red ink: Japanese characters, sailboat. Rubber stamps in black ink: cats. Rubber stamp in red, blue, and green ink: "AIRMAIL". Artist stamp depicting flowers(?). Adhesive sticker depicting a cat dressed in gothic lolita style.
Mail Art: Kasumi Iizumi, Tokyo, Japan to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1988 September 21
In place of envelope artist has used a band of transparent paper to seal enclosure. Collage of photographs of a buildings, and a posed figure in white costume with speech bubble: "This is a chain Letter Please going" [sic]. Rubber stamps in red and blue ink: lips and hearts. A4 sheet enclosed. Chain letter.
Mail Art: Inkwhizative, unknown location to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1985 June 7
Cover ornamented with collage newspaper clippings: woman wearing a corset, and a cartoon of a warehouse floor. Rubber stamps in blue ink: "INKWHIZATIVE", primitivist portrait design, "PI TH". No enclosures.
Mail Art: David Jarvis, London, England to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1982 June 23
Mail Art: Jes Archives, San Francisco, California to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, undated
Mail Art: George Keushgerian, Pico Rivera, California to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1981 March 20
Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: clown(?), hot-air balloon, scissors. Postcard enclosed. Photocopied collage of silhouette drawings of Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles skyline, and another building (presumably alos in LA). "LA's structures" written in blue pen on reverse. Same rubber stamps as used on cover in black ink. Paper slip enclosed. Scrap of lined writing paper: "PLEASE REPLY".
Mail Art: Yuji Kikutake, Tokyo, Japan to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1987 January 26
1987 commemmorative postcard from the People's Republic of China(?). Rubber stamp in red ink: Mao Zedong.
Mail Art: Peter Küstermann, Naples, Italy to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1986 October 18
Blank A4 perforated sheet of postage stamps folded into a cover. Ornamented with various rubber stamps in red, green, blue, and black ink. A4 sheet enclosed. Photocopied collage of various rubber stamps printed in black ink on a blank perforated sheet of postage stamps. Work produced during a visit to Italy at the "Naples Workshop October 18, 1986".
Mail Art: Peter Küstermann, Naples, Italy to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1986 October 18
Mail Art: Anna Langella, Genoa, Italy to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1983 December 28
Black and white photograph of a woman. Red and green markers used to color white dress, black marker used to excentuate eyebrows and add beauty spot, pink marker used to add blush to cheeks, red marker used to color lips. Inscription in Italian borders photograph in black ink. Rubber stamps in teal ink: circular design with "MAIL ART - GIOCARE", and sender's return address.
Mail Art: Jean-Noël Laszlo, Toulon, France to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, 1992 May 16
Photograph by Cuchi White of storage at the Chateau de Compiègne. Inscription in French to Bakhchanyan on reverse.
Mail Art: Ron Litz, Mill Valley, California to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, CIRCA 1986 January 19
Mail Art: Serse Luigetti, Perugia, Italy to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1982 September 30
Rubber stamps in black ink: diagram of fan from a combustion engine, foundry type of Italian text, 5 men standing side-by-side. Rubber stamps in red ink: "PAPER", "hello", "keep in touch", and rectangular design with diagonal lines. Rubber stamps in green ink: "FOUnD EnVIROnMENT", and sender's return address.
Mail Art: Serse Luigetti, Perugia, Italy to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1984 October 26
Mail Art: LUPUS, Chicago, Illinois to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, CIRCA 1980 December 15
Mail Art: Madam X, Los Angeles, California to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1981 July 12
Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: "Madam X" in cursive font with large curl on "X", and sender's return address. Bifolium enclosed. "Madam X's Gazet". Mock newspaper with occult themed articles regarding the "sphere of time".
Mail Art: Madam X, Los Angeles, California to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1985 March 23
Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: "Madam X" in cursive font with large curl on "X", and sender's return address. Bifolium enclosed. "Madam X's Gazet", #25. Mock newspaper with ironic articles and advertisements
Mail Art: Kamill Major, Paris, France to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1983 March 31
Brown paper cover. Postcard enclosed. Black card with objects taped to surface: paper clipping with "Happy Easter Holidays" in various languages (Hungarian, German, English, and Russian), Hungarian postage and part of address plate torn from a postcard, small twig/stalk, hard candy (disintegrating, but was probably a red and white peppermint swirl).
Mail Art: Shyouko Matsushita, Tokyo, Japan to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1984 September 4
Interior of self-mailer decorated with chaotic streams of typewriter letters, numbers, and punctuation in black and red ink. Certain characters are highlighted in pink or yellow, and have numbers handwritten below them in blue or red ink.
Mail Art: Gincarlo Martina, Codroipo, Italy to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1982 November 19
Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in black ink: "STAMPE", and sender's return address. "SURFACE VIA MARE" (surface by sea) handwritten in blue marker. Postcard enclosed. Blue card with map of Poland and "TRAX of POLAND" in bold text. Invitation to participate in a mail art project.
Mail Art: Radomir Másic, Kula, Yugoslavia to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1981 April 16
"dixi" in large bold type in black ink.
Mail Art: Metallic Avau [Violetta Wynants, Aerosol], Bussells, Belgium to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, CIRCA 1982 April 13
Mail Art: Metallic Avau [Violetta Wynants, Aerosol], Bussells, Belgium to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1982 December 19
Photograph of a man standing amongst trash in front of graffiti on a wall. Rubber stamps in red ink: diagram of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, cartoon handshake. Inscription thanks Bakhchanyan for his "graffiti photograph", and expresses a desire to meet him next year in New York City.
Mail Art: Metallic Avau [Violetta Wynants, Aerosol], Bussells, Belgium to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1982 December 19
Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in red ink: "RTB F" logo (purpose unknown, design also on enclosure), and "IMPRIMES". Rubber stamp in black ink: sender's return address. A4 sheet enclosed. Invitation to contribute to a mail art "mural" on the theme "COMMUNICATIONS" (see Folder: 971).
Mail Art: Metallic Avau [Violetta Wynants, Aerosol], Bussells, Belgium to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, undated
Photograph of a man standing amongst trash in front of graffiti on a wall. Rubber stamp in black ink: sender's return address. Rubber stamp in red ink: cartoon handshake. Hand-written inscription in blue ink. No postage stamps or postal markers, no cover.
Mail Art: Roger Miller, Boston, Massachusetts to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, 1982 March 17
Blank cover, no address plate, postage stamps, or postal markings. 1 sheet enclosed. Folded, sender's address on both exterior and interior. Inscription mentions that "slightly more than 100 envelope-able cards" are included for a project by Bakhchanyan. 4 cards enclosed. Advertising an EP titled "BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC", sketch of pterodactly. Different colored recycled card (2 cream, 1 brown, 1 purple). Possibly leftovers after Bakhchanyan used others for his project.