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 134 Collections and/or Records:
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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.
Pioneer / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione., 2009
This piece deals with a giant rubberstamping machine, called Pioneer that was made in Germany in 1976 by Mass Moving. It was used to provide rubberstamped images on city streets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pioneer / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione., 2009
This piece deals with a giant rubberstamping machine, called Pioneer that was made in Germany in 1976 by Mass Moving. It was used to provide rubberstamped images on city streets. -- 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.
Poster Poems: & + 4 / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione; D Domel., 2009
This rubberstamp set was conceived by Gaglione and performed by Darlene Domel in memory of Raoul Hausmann at the Stampart Museum in Chicago c.2009. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Poster Poems: & + 4 / Bill Gaglione, aka Picasso Gaglione; D Domel., 2009
This rubberstamp set was conceived by Gaglione and performed by Darlene Domel in memory of Raoul Hausmann at the Stampart Museum in Chicago c.2009. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Publications and Projects by Stempelplaats, Amsterdam 1978-1980 / Agius, Juan J. ; Carrion U ; Banana A ; Gaglione B ; Gibbs M ; Huisman H ; Saunders R ; Silveira R ; Splettstosser P ; Tot E ; Joseph R ; Immoos F ; Petasz P ; VanBarneveld A ; Friedman K., 1997
Rubber: Stampworks. No.8/Augl / Anna Banana ; Bill Gaglione., 1978
Sculpture for Traveling by Marcel Duchamp / Gaglione, Bill\aka Picasso Gaglione ; Crotti J., 2011
This a facsimile of a letter from Marcel Duchamp to Jean Crotti in 1918 regarding the making of a wall sculpture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Stamp Art Gallery / Gaglione, Bill., 1991
postcard to Marvin and Ruth Sackner from Gaglione/aka Picasso Gaglione -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Stamps and Other Residues 1970-1979 / Kocman, J.H. ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Friedman K ; Gaglione B ; Ben., 1995
In the introduction, Gaglione mentions that Ben was the first to introduce rubberstampings into modern art in the late 50's and early 60's but that Kocman should be considered the "neo-father" of contemporary stamp art as demonstrated by his 1972 book "Stamp Activity." With this publication (30 copies), the concept of international stamp art was officially born into the eternal network. The rubberstamp collaged onto the cover carries the word, "touch." -- 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.
Tampon Trouve: The Found Stamp / Gaglione, Bill ; Janssen R ; Ronan S., 1995
This catalogue depicts the found stamp prints from the rubber (tires, o-rings, etc.) found within a 100 feet area around the Stamp Art Gallery from 1993-1995. The cover photograph of Gaglione was taken by Ruud Jenssen. Gaglione used the name Picasso Gaglione rather than Bill Gaglione for this publication.Stephen Ronan mentions in an introductory essay that there are three categories of rubber stamps, the manufactured, the hand carved, and the "found stamp." Object trouve or found object refers to the act of an artist declaring a pre-existing or "ready-made" object, which he/she did not create as a work of art (as in the works of Duchamp). -- 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.
The Cross / Carter, Paul, editor ; Carter P ; DeRook GJ ; Sommers R ; Perfetti M ; Gaglione B ; Banana A ; Galantai G ; Hendricks J ; Szombathy B ; Crane M., 1977
Each page includes an image of a cross. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.