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May Wilson
Normal School Arts and Crafts Club
$1200
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ca. 1966
Mail Art. Ridiculous Portrait: UNIQUE collage- spray paint, photo stamp, stamp and pen on note card, titled and SIGNED and dated 12/22 by Wilson on the backside. 4 x 6 in (10.16 x 15.24 cm)
May Wilson (1905–1986) was an avant-garde artist active in the NYC art scene from the 1960s to 1990s. She was a pioneer of the feminist and mail art movements and is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages. Moving to New York in the 1960’s, Wilson became friends with Ray Johnson and other avant-garde artists. It was at this time that she moved away from painting portraits and landscapes and began creating her ridiculous portraits, works in which a photo of her distorted face is collaged onto postcard reproductions of paintings and photographs of idealized women. These portraits represent early feminist explorations into the issues of gender and identity. Wilson would send these portraits out to her friends and the mail art network.
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