Anna Banana mail art to John Evans
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Title
Anna Banana mail art to John Evans
Subject
Mail art
Description
This piece of mail art was sent from Anna Banana, a Canadian mail artist out of British Columbia to John Evans, a collagist and mail art participant from New York City.
The work is composed of various stamps and stickers, both true postage and some of John Evans’s own works. The addressee’s sticker, the return address sticker and the proof of purchase sticker all serve two purposes to transport and to complete the composition. The background of the work is most likely done with spray paint and a stencil to create a colorful geometric patterned background.
John Evans and Anna Banana exchanged mail art for many years up until Evans death in 2012. Evans was most known for his collage work, which he started in 1964 and made a different collage every day until 2000. Here we see Anna Banana sending a collage to Evans, created with pieces of his own artwork. Just as Evans’ collages were of found objects this piece too is created of found, everyday objects. The words, “of action,” peak out beneath and next to two stamps in the middle of the composition. This idea of action plays on the idea of the collage, which could not be done without the action of finding objects and ephemera.
The work is composed of various stamps and stickers, both true postage and some of John Evans’s own works. The addressee’s sticker, the return address sticker and the proof of purchase sticker all serve two purposes to transport and to complete the composition. The background of the work is most likely done with spray paint and a stencil to create a colorful geometric patterned background.
John Evans and Anna Banana exchanged mail art for many years up until Evans death in 2012. Evans was most known for his collage work, which he started in 1964 and made a different collage every day until 2000. Here we see Anna Banana sending a collage to Evans, created with pieces of his own artwork. Just as Evans’ collages were of found objects this piece too is created of found, everyday objects. The words, “of action,” peak out beneath and next to two stamps in the middle of the composition. This idea of action plays on the idea of the collage, which could not be done without the action of finding objects and ephemera.
Creator
Anna Banana
Source
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/anna-banana-mail-art-to-john-evans-18606
Publisher
Archives of American Art
Date
November 22, 2010
Contributor
Jacklyn Weinstein
Rights
Artists Rights Society
Relation
[no text]
Format
Collage
Language
[no text]
Type
Mail Art
Identifier
[no text]
Coverage
[no text]
Files
Collection
Citation
Anna Banana, “Anna Banana mail art to John Evans,” Collaborative Correspondence: Mail Art from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, accessed May 10, 2024, https://collaborativecorrespondence.omeka.net/items/show/33.