Gaglione, Picasso, 1943-
Dates
- Existence: 1943 July 11
Biography
William Gaglione, born in New York City in 1943, became an influential leader of the mail art movement during the 1960s. From that point he took an active role in the New York Correspondence School, along with his friend Ray Johnson, where he created his coded name "Dadaland." Long before the general public was aware of the artistic possibilities, mail artists were using rubber stamps to decorate their envelopes, finding abstract applications, and developing techniques. Rubber stamp art became an important genre within mail art, along with publications, postage stamps, photocopy, and audio cassette trade, and began to generate its own shows, magazines, and conventions. From being a contributor in the movement, Gaglione's position was to publicize the up and coming genre by utilizing the publications, shows, magazines, and audio cassettes.
Gaglione left New York and moved to California during the 1970s, where he founded his first company dedicated to mail art, Stamp Francisco. While living in San Francisco, he befriended other mail artists, including Darlene Domel, who he later married, and Anna "Banana" Lee. During this time, he contributed to artistamp, which is the art form of a postage stamp, but not meant to be considered real. Additionally, it was with Anna Banana that Gaglione developed Vile Magazine, which gave the opportunity for mail artists to publish their art and other publications. As Gaglione became more empowered with the mail art movement, he was known as a pioneer and developed the name "Picasso" Gaglione for all of the techniques he created.
During the 1990s, Gaglione focused his attention on the fine art of rubber stamping and his role as curator for the Stamp Art Gallery in San Francisco. Currently, Gaglione resides in Chicago with Darlene Domel. He owns a company, Stampland, which consists of fine art rubber stamps that he sells.
Nationality
American
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
All My Rubber Stamps (all together now) , 2010
All My Rubberstamps (in no particular order), 2010
This edition was designed and produced by Picasso Gaglione. The rubberstamp image included all of Baroni's rubberstamps on one page. The book depicts reproductions of multiple rubberstampings to the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Anthology Meaning Meanings, 1989
This booklet was written for a workshop in a grade school class and is a second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Belgium Fluxus, 1999
The concept and design were done by Picasso Gaglione and the text by John Held Jr. The latter wrote, "The three rubberstamps in this boxed set are an ongoing tribute to the influence of Fluxus and its spirit of collaboration among international cultural workers." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Cabaret Voltaire
Cavellini 1914-2014, 1995
This rubber stamp provides a 7.5 cm diameter image that announces Cavellini's exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Congress Post, 1995
DA DA, 2011
Here's a little something for you & Ms. Ruth. So far it's an edition of 5. I wanted you to have one for your archive. The boxes are shaped like large books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Faux Fluxus/West Edition, Stamp Art Editions, 1995
The rubber stamps were designed by Ken Friedman, Chuck Welch, Bill Gaglone, Steve Random, Luce Fierens, and Ed Varney on the occasion of an exhibition by Ken Friedman, entitled, Rubber Stamps, at Stamp Art Gallery in San Francisco. The original Friedman rubber stamp was designed by Wolfgang Feelish and became among the most widely reproduced stamp in international mail art networking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Flux Zine, No. 1: Assembling Zine in a Box, 2003
Fluxus West, 2010
hand carved, 2010
L.H.O.O.Q., 1995
This stamp is appropriated from the Marcel Duchamp ready-made of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Meeting Picasso Gaglione was the most beautiful day of my life, 2010
[Memories are made of this and that] / Gaglione 1940-2040, 1978
The inside pages of this work on brown, textured wallpaper is viewed through an opening on its right side. Here the rubberstamped text and images of bananas and a man's head are present. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
N.1/81: Hybridada - Egonaut , 1981
No.44 / Starosciak, Jane ; Hoffberg J ; Banana A ; Gaglione B ; Crombie J ; Higgins D ; Holzer J ; Kaprow A ; Kostelanetz R ; Lavater W ; LeWitt S ; Lyons J ; Oldenburg C ; Ono Y ; Ruscha E ; Samaras L ; Berner J ; Ben ; Weiner L ; Drucker J., 1999
Obscene Jesters, 2010
OFFEAHBDEC BDQ ,,qjiyE! / fmsbwtözäu pggiv-..?mü, 2009
These rubberstamps and their prints were appropriated by gaglione from Raoul Hausmann's poster poems done in 1918. The booklet is dedicated to Hausmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
