Postcard show Installation

coming

going

The postcard show is coming together and here are two shots of the basic feel of the thing.
It will be a beautiful show and I will post some more images soon.
A press release was sent out that looked something like this:
 

Gallery Wolfy Part II

2676 West 14^th Street

Cleveland, Ohio 44113-5216

PRESS RELEASE

Possibly the last postcard Show

February 24^th until March 24^th

Opening February 24^th 5pm-7pm

After Party at Pats' in the Flats

performances by Brute Force & The Rainy Day Saints

Tremont art walk Friday, March 9^th 5pm-7pm

Gallery Wolfy Part II will honor Deltiology, postcards and the people that still actively send them. Anything mailed to the gallery will be displayed so that both sides are visible or tiled to create an artwork. Postcards sent to the gallery will be available for purchase and cards designed by some of the more noted artists for future use will also be for sale. There will be a small amount of vintage postcards on display as historical examples of the art and because they are pretty beautiful.

The postcard has been used to send brief a message and picture to friends and loved ones since 1869. The earliest cards evolved out of hand delivered and adorned envelopes. Since the days of the Lipman postal card, colorful images illustrated world landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower for the traveler to mark a place anda thought in time. The United States Postal Service has struggled to remain the remarkable institution it has been in recent months. The Post Offices expects 252 of it's 461 processing centers be shuttered before the end of the year. Mail will become more and more difficult and costly to send and receive but until then let us celebrate the postcard with it's simpliest function and form.

Some of the artists that have chosen to create and mail for the show are:

Reed Anderson, Jeffry Chiplis, Brute Force, Lee Ranaldo, Steven B. Smith, Maya Hayuk, Donna Henes, Anna Haifisch, Jo Meinke, Tamara Wyndham, Sto, Willa Johnson, Wendy Collin Sorin, Scott Helmes, Harley Spiller, Members of the Pro Failure Movement, Fred Cray, Talk Normal, Daniel De Cullá, Eva Peck, Aro Friedland, Holiday Anderson, Mark & Katie Deering, Ana Benaroya, Lady Smith, John Bennet, Lauren Thykeson, Anna Banana, Akiko Ichikawa, Roscoe Johanna Poethig, Audrey Anastasi, Melody, Beegu, Koala, Daniela Jauk, Amy Reid, Dr. Sara Mednick and “Your Sister”.

Thanks,

Jef Scharf for

The Director, Sales, Art Handlers, and staff of Gallery Wolfy Part II

February 22^nd, 2012

Gallery Wolfy Part II is a storefront and art space in the Tremont neighborhood dedicated to aggrandizing the senseless, selfish, and occasionally interesting phenomena called art.

Brute Force is a legendary musician Steven Friedland who has written for The Chiffons, The Creation, The Cyrkle, Peggy March, and Del Shannon, played in The Tokens, played on the shows of Dr. Demento & Zacherle, has been produced by Geo. Harrison for Apple Records. In 1969 one of the most inspiring and noble acts was an expedition with best friend Ben Schlossberg to swim the entire Bering Strait, a "Cold War" stunt was aimed at drawing attention to "the closeness of the Eastern and Western hemispheres."

His music is available on BarNone Records

The Rainy Day Saints are simply one of the best bands in Cleveland.

Jeffry Chiplis will also be celebrating 15 years of birthdays at Pats'. (It is really his show and we are headed there because we have Chippy and Brute Force in the postcard show.)