Gaglione, Picasso, 1943-
Dates
- Existence: 1943-
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.
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Before After Mail Art Project / Private World ; Cohen R ; Gaglione B., 1986
Congress Post / Bill Gaglione., 1995
Congress Post / Bill Gaglione., 1995
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.
Fluxus / Gaglione, Bill; Held, John Jr.; Johnson R., 1997
A typed, photocopied caption at the bottom of the sheet reads, You have been dropped from the New York Correspondence School - Ray Johnson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Gina Lotto Post / Lloyd, Ginny ; Gaglione B., 1986
According to Lloyd, "GINA LOTTA POST is an artist stamp post evolved out of the correspondence art activities of Ginny Lloyd. Founded in 1978, there have been both several one-of-a-kind stamps and multiple edition issues. Headquartered in San Francisco, where most of the editions are published, several GINA LOTTA POST editions have been published elsewhere: Budapest, Munich, Poland, Amsterdam, Cleveland and New York.Various mediums are used in the creation of the stamps: photographs, computer graphics, collage, rubber stamps, etc. the stamps are intended to be used to illuminate mailings as will as to be displayed as prints.GINA LOTTA POST is an artist book containing stamp issues that have not been published previously, as well as, reproductions from published editions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
N.1/81: Hybridada - Egonaut / Baroni, Vittore; Gaglione, Bill; Bay Area Dadaists, The; Banana, Anna., 1981
New York Correspondence School of San Francisco / Gaglione, Bill., 1997
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.
Photobooth Performance / Gaglione, Bill; Knowles, Alison., 1976
Stored in Stamp Art gallery folded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Post Flux/7-11 / Gaglione, Bill., 1996
The 100 stamps each depict a different portrait. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Tampon Trouve: The Found Stamp / Gaglione, Bill., 1995
Gaglione used the name Picasso Gaglione rather than Bill Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Blue Stamp of Yves Klein / Klein, Yves ; Held Jjr ; Gaglione B ; Restany P ; Leiber S ; Galantai G ; Eriksson E., 1996
The catalogue edited by John Held Jr. describes the historic aspects of Klein's blue stamp that was used to address a letter in 1957 and was cancelled by the French postal service. The stamps were made from postal service sheets of perforated stamps by either dipping them into blue paint or hand painting them according to different authorities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Cancellation of the Blue Stamp / Yves Klein; J Held jr; B Gaglione., 1996
The rubber stamp made by John Held Jr. and Bill Gaglione is a reproduction of the dated cancellation (6-5-1957) that cancelled Klein's "blue stamp." The stamp is mounted in p\apercard in the box with the color of "Klein Blue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Cancellation of the Blue Stamp / Yves Klein; J Held jr; B Gaglione., 1996
The rubber stamp made by John Held Jr. and Bill Gaglione is a reproduction of the dated cancellation (6-5-1957) that cancelled Klein's "blue stamp." The stamp is mounted in p\apercard in the box with the color of "Klein Blue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Vittore Baroni playing the part of Picasso Gaglione / Baroni, Vittore; Gaglione, Bill (aka Picasso Gaglione)., 2010
This edition was designed and produced by Picasso Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Works: 1970-1979 / Kocman, J.H. ; Gaglione B ; Ben ; Perneczky G ; Knizak M ; Valoch J., 1995
Presented and created by Bill Gaglione and edited by Ted Purves who state that art scholars consider Kocman the neo-father of contemporary stamp art aka rubberstamping art. Onthe inside back cover, Kocman has handwritten [facsimile] a paraphrasse by Wittgenstrin "The limit of my languafe is the limit of my world" as "The limit of my love is the limit of my world." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.