Renowned for his monumental linear improvisations in steel which have been described as “Action Sculpture in slow motion,” Bernar Venet's Undetermined Line drawings are also energetic linear abstractions. Presented here is a card with a unique Undetermined Line drawing on the front and on the verso Venet signs the card with well wishes for the coming year. A simple holiday greeting made all the more special with its unique drawing. For more information, click here.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt's husband, Robert Rehfeldt (1931-1993) was a graphic designer who was also associated with the mail art network. His far-reaching communications included correspondence with Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Robert Filliou, Horst Tress and Dick Higgins among many others. In the 1980s, the studio he shared with Ruth became a meeting place for the local and international art community. Presented here is one of Robert's mail art newsletters as holiday greeting. For more information, click here.
Out of an edition of 24 unique paintings on blank bifold cards by Alfred Jensen (1903-1981), this card is signed on its backside with a holiday greeting to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Messer. Thomas M. Messer was director of the Guggenheim Museum from 1961 to 1987. The card’s painting is in-compliment to Jensen’s renowned multicolored checkerboard paintings of which the artist’s wide-ranging studies of systems and philosophies- from theories of color and light, mathematics, and the Mayan calendar, to scientific formulations- inform his distinctive conceptual approach. For more information, click here.
In 1998, artist Jim Hodges created the Norton Family Christmas Project gift, If There Had Been a Pool it Would Have Reflected Us. Like this edition, Hodges’ work often blurs the lines between an objects intended function and its actual meaning. For this edition, a utilitarian blanket, whose measurements equal the exact size of Hodges’ bed, is transformed into an intimate imaginary landscape. Against a turquoise blue background, the text to Hodges’ poem, “If There Had Been A Pool It Would Have Reflected Us,” is woven one side as normal text and in reverse on the other side, as way of suggesting the words as reflections in water. This example is still sealed and comes with its original box addressed to John Gibson, John Gibson Gallery (NYC). For more information, click here.
American photographer Bea Nettles is recognized for her early narrative, often autobiographical approach. For this Dye Transfer print from 1984, out of the series, Rachel's Holidays, Bea captures a still-life of some of her young daughter, Rachel’s, holiday things. For more information, click here.
