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	Ray Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnson was also the founder of the New York Correspondence School(NYCS), and therefore the originator of "correspondence art," the inter-disciplinary art form that uses the postal service in some way (also known as mail art).
		Johnson saw his collages as one piece of a complex spectrum of activities that included drawings, his use of the mails, telephone conversations, performance art, poetry and real life, all punctuated with a touch of zen and/or Tao.
		The trailblazing Johnson was a fixture on the Manhattan scene, heralded as an innovator by the heroes-to-be of Pop art and Fluxus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ray_Johnson (1209 words)

	RAY JOHNSON
		Johnson was to continue to produce collages of people until at least 1968.37 Critically, in 1955 he signalled dissatisfaction with the limitations of the conventional means of showing art by choosing to 'exhibit' his small collages outside the gallery situation in places such as in the street and in Grand Central Terminal.
		Johnson's interest was primarily in the iconography of the person and the possibility of making puns on their names or some part of the image, simply using found photographs of them without subjecting them to different media and processes.
		Johnson did not use a formula for his mailart, he would respond to whatever occurred to him at the time, whatever was to hand, be it a reference to the recipient or to something topical, so making each sending unique.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/palace/62/johnson.html (5406 words)

	Ray Johnson
		Johnson had moved from Manhattan to Long Island in the summer of 1968, after a traumatic 48-hour period which included the shooting of his friend Andy Warhol by Valerie Solanas, his own mugging at knifepoint later the same night, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy the next morning.
		Johnson himself had spoken to Toby the night before, and although he did not mention suicide, she sensed that "something was wrong".
		Johnson's subversive attitude towards Pollock was formed in the late 1940s, when he came to New York at the outset of his career and Pollock dominated the scene, not only with his huge canvasses and physical method, but with his Hemingway-esque persona.
	www.warholstars.org /andywarhol/articles/rayjohnson/ind.html (4064 words)

	Ray Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Because Ray Johnson was the original "bridge" between so many of the people and sensibilities that dot the landscape of the international art scene and it's fringes, it is ironic that he took his own life at age 67 on January13th, 1995 by jumping from a bridge into the chilly waters of Sag Harbor.
		The trailblazing Johnson was a fixture on the Manhattan scene, heralded as an innovator by the heroes-to-be of Pop and Fluxus.
		People who were close to Ray Johnson in the last years of his life know that he used inexpensive throw-away snapshot cameras as a tool to make pictures of "set ups" in natural settings of his silhouettes, portraits and other 2 and 3 dimensional objects.
	www.echonyc.com /~panman/Ray.html (1295 words)

	The Estate of Ray Johnson
		Ray Johnson, "collagist extraordinaire, correspondent of the first rank, and founding father of mail art" who has until now eluded biography, was at Black Mountain College 1945-1948.
		Johnson created extraordinary collages and invented mail art, but it was his life that was really his art.
		She curated the Ray Johnson memorial exhibition in 1995 at Feigen and worked, as the Director of the Estate of Ray Johnson, on the retrospective, Ray Johnson: Correspondences, shown in 1999 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
	www.rayjohnsonestate.com /howtodraw.php (656 words)

	Blastitude 13
		Ray often used stationery from the movie projectionist's union, aware as he was of images projected into the darkness.
		Ray was almost as fascinated with the flow of menstrual blood and of urine in biological females.
		From Ray's point of view, 13 did not have a malevolent power, and to him, his drowning was not a tragic or evil event, it was a fulfillment of the governing images of his life and art.
	www.blastitude.com /13/ETERNITY/ray_johnson.htm (3981 words)

	ray ELTON JOHNson
		Ray appeared in front of New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark and TV at a show called the Montana's World of Wearable Art.
		Ray was picked to double for Elton where he performs the chorus of his new single (old remix) Are You Ready apt are you ready for the new season.
		Ray is featured in the long shots seated at the piano, but it might as well be a broomstick because you can't make out the image let alone him.
	www.eltonjohnson.com (711 words)

	RJ - Report
		Ray Johnson's manipulation of the Presley portrait was something new; it went beyond the use of ideas from photography to merge the very materials of camera work and paint.
		Ray Johnson is by no means a newcomer to the area of correspondence or mail art.
		But Johnson's answer to this categorization is: "I would not be a collagist, I would not be a Surrealist, I am a Sandpaperer."[15] Sandpaperer or not, Johnson's humor avoids negation, relying on the essentially positive nature of the true comic perspective.
	ariel.adgrp.com /~ghb/ort/rayj/rj-report.html (2339 words)

	ray johnson, warhol, dada, exquisite corpse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ray Johnson's puns, anagrams and wordplays were overwhelming, but they struck a chord with me, and have influenced much of my own activity since.
		Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School (NYCS) was an enormous human collage of paper, objects and ideas.
		Ray found my driver's registration in a biography of Joseph Cornell in the Port Washington Public Library, and sent that to me, as well as half a dozen other "bookmarks" over the next year.
	www.art-themagazine.com /pages/paris17.htm (1998 words)

	Rayocide by Mark Bloch
		Ray's School has most often been cited as a pun on the word "dance," and indeed it was, but the third element in that triangulation seems to have been forgotten—the French spelling of the word.
		Ray's rigourous art of free association can easily be dismissed by those without the hearty tenacity required to follow the links from one correspondance to another.
		Ray's clever pallette remains profoundly punctuated with the forgotten details that other people's lives would be made of, if we only had the time to ponder such things.
	www.panmodern.com /rayjohnson/rayocide.html (3800 words)

	Amazon.com: Ray Johnson: Correspondences: Books: Donna De Salvo,Catherine Gudis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Johnson was the nerve center of this pre-digital netscape that spread around the nation and, eventually, the world, which continues to flourish today.
		Ray Johnson: correspondences, offers the first opportunity for in-depth examination of the work of an artist who reflected and dissected many of the aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical preoccupations of the last forty years; a figure whose impact and influence will finally be made known.
		Johnson's mysterious death is not addressed much here and that is both a disappointment and a missed opportunity but the images in the book do bring to the fore many interesting "correspondences" with that event that make it indispensable reading for anyone who wants to explore that angle.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2080136631?v=glance (1764 words)

	Ray Johnson Gallery
		Johnson has claimed the cartoon tag to be personal self portraits varied by the daily mood changes in his life.
		Indeed, through the years Johnson regularly asked friends and strangers alike to alter his bunny heads, what Ray termed as "add-ons." At other times the bunnies were assigned the names of persons either famous, unknown, or known only to Ray and his circle of friends, collectively known as the New York Correspondence School.
		Ray Johnson's fl self-portrait was a contribution to the "Netshakers Stamp Sheet," a grouping of 99 mail artist portraits arranged by Crackerjack Kid for "Netshaker" zine (Volume 3, No. 1).
	www.actlab.utexas.edu /emma/Gallery/galleryjohnsonpix.html (874 words)

	Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Ray Johnson: alternate reality art performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Johnson staging most of his life as performance is a theme running through many of the interviews.
		Ray had savings of $400,000.00 only in the sense that his parents inherited money shortly before they died, leaving Ray their inheritance and their house.
		Ray had relations with at least two women, if that matters, in the period when he was expected to want to be cured of his sexuality.
	infocult.typepad.com /infocult/2005/08/ray_johnson_alt.html (1123 words)

	Ray Johnson
		Ray Johnson was born (Staudek, 2003) in Detroit, Michigan in 1927.
		Ray was also the originator of Pop Art, drawing portraits of American pop icons that incorporated humour and satire.
		At near left is a photo of Ray Johnson in the 1960's by his close friend Toby Spiselman from a book by William S. Wilson, another close friend and collector.
	www.digitalsalon.com /ray_johnson.html (1994 words)

	SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT MAIL ART - PART-13
		Nothing personal, but I then already noticed that the xeroxes Ray sent were always on very special paper, and that he used a special toner in the xerox-machine to get nice blue and grey-colors.
		This interview started my research of what Ray Johnson was doing, and the first phase is collecting the informations that are available.
		I am not a collector of Ray Johnson materials, so I am not interested in having originals of his works (unless you want to get rid of them that is).
	www.iuoma.org /stat_13.html (1416 words)

	Ray Johnson ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Johnson’s particular use of color and gesture sho...
		Ed and Stacia Johnson are featured in the International Library of Photography in several upcoming editions, and have their work featured on several web sites.
		A progenitor of pop art and a major force in the development of mail art, especially through the activities of his New York Correspondence School, Johnson was a potent and influential presence in the art world from the 1950s through the 1990s.
	wwar.com /masters/j/johnson-ray.html (1299 words)

	Ray Johnson Gallery
		The New York Correspondence School was established by Ray Johnson in the early '60s; it was singularly the most important contribution of Ray Johnson to the history of art, a point missed by leading newspapers and art magazines reporting Johnson's death.
		It was Fluxus and Ray Johnson's NYCS that birthed mail art, the largest international art community and movement in the history of art.
		Throughout the 1960s til his death, Ray Johnson was the conduit, the server, the proto-internet dada daddy surfing the mailstream, invading mailboxes everywhere with bunnies, imaginary Fan Clubs, and correspondance wordplay.
	www.actlab.utexas.edu /emma/Gallery/galleryjohnson.html (578 words)

	Panel Discussion on Ray Johnson
		Mark Bloch: Ray is a very legendary person and he was only a legend to me when I was living in Southern Califoirnia in the late 70s.
		If you knew Ray you would know that this delighted him and he sought me out tryed to find out who I was and what I was doing and and why.
		Before Ray died, it was like screaming into a wind tunnel trying to get a major museum to acquire a work of Ray Johnson's.
	www.panmodern.com /rayjohnson/ray_panel.html (3682 words)

	Ray Johnson Article
		They are included in the retrospective exhibition "Ray Johnson: Correspondences," organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and opening there Saturday.
		Johnson, he said, not only founded mail art and created visually powerful works but also led the charge in the pop-art movement.
		Johnson, who was born in Detroit, attended the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina; two paintings from that period are included in the new exhibit.
	www.dragonflydream.com /Dispatch.html (1027 words)

	The Estate of Ray Johnson
		Ray Johnson: New York Correspondence School Exhibition (September 2 - October 6).
		An Exhibition of the Letters of Ray Johnson (31 October-5 December).
		The Richard L. Feigen and Co. Ray Johnson: A Memorial Exhibition.
	www.rayjohnsonestate.com /bibliography.php (588 words)

	TAM Interview #34
		I am still collecting all kind of information about Ray Johnson (before and/or after his suicide on 13-1-1995).
		(Ray's answer was written on the original invitation to the project.
		(The next question was in the length Ray wanted, and to make it more difficult for him,I typed the next question on dark-red paper on which I indicated the length he choosewith a golden pen.
	jas.faximum.com /library/tam/tam_34.htm (289 words)

	Ray Johnson artist and art...the-artists.org
		Sag Harbor, N.Y. Johnson mysteriously headed toward Ã±The East EndÃ® of Long Island on the morning of Jan. 13, 1995.
		He was last seen backstroking away from a bridge that evening in Sag Harbor, N.Y. Police called his death a suicide, and it has became apparent to his friends that he had been planning his death for some time.
		Johnson, who lived frugally, left no will, but had $400,000 in bank accounts.
	www.the-artists.org /ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F6DD-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40 (344 words)

	Ray Johnson on Wine, Author and Wine Educator
		Ray Johnson on Wine – an independent guide to wine, featuring tasting notes, reviews and in-depth winery profiles from Ray’s travels throughout Sonoma County Wine Country and around the world.
		Catch the latest schedule of Ray’s wine classes, in San Francisco and Santa Rosa California.
		Throughout you’ll appreciate Ray’s down to earth approach, where the price to value relationship of wine is more important than pedigree.
	www.rayjohnsononwine.com (114 words)

	JohnsonInterview
		I was explaining my oldest rubber stamp reading "Collage by Ray Johnson" as to how and where and why I use and stamp it, which in the collage process, or ceremony, after I apply tape or glue to a surface, which technically makes it a collage.
		JH: I saw a Ray Johnson advertised to appear on the Johnny Carson Show one evening.
		Wagstaff, I was told, had one-hundred Ray Johnson letters.
	www.geocities.com /johnheldjr/JohnsonInterview.html (4519 words)

	Ray Johnson - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
		I've been recording in my home studio for the last few years and here is some of what I've come up with.
		A solo gig here and there and with "Ray Johnson and Blue Collar" a 4-pc band playing a lot of heavier blues.
		Ray Johnson and Blue Collar has been playing in the Lafayette area for the last few months.
	www.soundclick.com /rayjohnson (373 words)

	Bibliography Ray Johnson -- Dossier Fluxus & Happening
		Ruud Janssen published his 'Unfinished Mail-interview' with Ray Johnson, text-version of the two answers Ray give as part of the interview-project.
		Mark Bloch also wrote Rayocide : 67 paragraphs on the death of Ray Johnson (originally prepared for Lightworks Magazine, 1995) and a Panel Discussion on Ray Johnson (transcribed from live radio broadcast on the Pacifica Network's Artbreaking, on WBAI-FM in New York hosted by Charlie Finch.
		Catalogue: Ray Johnson : Correspondences / edited by Donna De Salvo and Catherine Gudis (Wexner Center for the Arts : Columbus OH, 1999).
	members.chello.nl /j.seegers1/bib_mailart/bib_johnson.html (626 words)

	Ray Johnson
		Catalog for the exhibition “Ray Johnson” held at the Galleries at Moore, November 1–December 15, 1991.
		Includes “The Mailed Art of Ray Johnson” by Clive Phillpot.
		Ray Johnson, “the most famous unknown; artist” in America, transmitted his extraordinary cultural commentaries in unexpected ways—both through the medium of collage and by transmission through the postal service.
	thegalleriesatmoore.org /publications/johnson.shtml (145 words)

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		Ray Lewis: That Street game, that's going to be on the humbug if you win.
		The latest stats, facts, news and notes on Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens.
		Ray Anthony Lewis (born May 15, 1975 in Bartow, Florida) is an American football To avoid prosecution of the murder charge, Lewis copped a plea bargain
	spanish-dictionary.surferspace.com /?q=spanish-dictionary-ray-lewis (263 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ray Johnson: Correspondences: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This book deserves five stars because of its subject: Ray Johnson.
		Because this book is a journey into Johnson's unique world that will turn your own upside down.
		Then, to be like Johnson, you could cut it up mail it to your friends.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/2080136631 (1266 words)

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