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Gaglione, Picasso, 1943-

 Person

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 134 Collections and/or Records:

Fluxfest: Fort Worth, Chicago, New York City, Kaunas Lithuania / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-52365-73488
Scope and Contents

Bill Gaglione is also known as Picasso Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Fluxfest: Fort Worth, Chicago, New York City, Kaunas Lithuania / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-52365-73488
Scope and Contents

Bill Gaglione is also known as Picasso Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Fluxus / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-52364-73487
Scope and Contents

Bill Gaglione is also known as Picasso Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Fluxus / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-52364-73487
Scope and Contents

Bill Gaglione is also known as Picasso Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Fluxus / Gaglione, Bill; Held, John Jr.; Johnson R., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28712-30016
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1997

Gina Lotto Post / Lloyd, Ginny ; Gaglione B., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-46842-49576
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1986

hand carved, 2010

 Item — Box 173: [Barcode: 31858072459252]
Identifier: CC-51575-72674

Inter Dada 84 / Ginny Lloyd, editor; B Gaglione; R Rocola; B Cleveland; A Banana; A Spiegelman; M Bell; CE Loeffler; D Domel; P Fish; JO Olbrich; C Stake; GA Cavellini; P Tavenner; J Hoffberg; A Schmidt; R Johnson., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-51673-72773
Scope and Contents

Although the edition called for 25 copies, according to Ginny Lloyd during a personal visit to the Archive in 2010, only four copies were actually assembled. Since the Sackner copy is numbered '5', perhaps she meant five copies. The box is addressed to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Inter Dada 84 / Ginny Lloyd, editor; B Gaglione; R Rocola; B Cleveland; A Banana; A Spiegelman; M Bell; CE Loeffler; D Domel; P Fish; JO Olbrich; C Stake; GA Cavellini; P Tavenner; J Hoffberg; A Schmidt; R Johnson., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-51673-72773
Scope and Contents

Although the edition called for 25 copies, according to Ginny Lloyd during a personal visit to the Archive in 2010, only four copies were actually assembled. Since the Sackner copy is numbered '5', perhaps she meant five copies. The box is addressed to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984