December - Italy
AAA Edizioni is proud to announce the
publication of James Warren Felter's book ARTISTAMPS / FRANCOBOLLI
D'ARTISTA, a richly illustrated history of artistamps with texts in
English and Italian; 216 pages, hundreds of illustrations.
December - Umbrella, Vol. 23, #3
Jas' book In Situ
is reviewed in Umbrella; a leading newsletter concerned with
contemporary visual art. In the section of Artist Book Reviews (page
86), In Situ is described as "a volume devoted to brilliant
../../photos captured with a digital camera." The review goes on to
state that "The 14 different ../../photos are definitely a commentary on the
20th century detritus that society leaves in using the goods of the earth, yet
the ../../photos are in glowing color and are brilliantly composed."
November 26 - January 12, 2001 - Vancouver
Gotcha! Digital
../../photos by Jas W Felter, Mitzi M Kanee, Gregg Simpson and Bill Thomson
are exhibited at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre as one of a series
of exhibitions sponsored by Avenue for-des Arts Society.
November - Montevideo
Three of Jas' artistamps are reproduced in
colour in the artistamp zine Correro del Sur/Southern Post #4,
published by Clemente Padin in Uruguay.
October 14 - November 19 - Manitou Springs Colorado
A digital
image from the In Situ series by Jas was selected by the Jury for
inclusion in the all digital art exhibition bit by bit held in the Main
gallery of the Business of Art Centre.
October 13 - 30 - Albertville, Switzerland
A new sheet of
artistamps with 28 digital portraits of Artistamp Creators is included
in the exhibition Mail Art et timbres d'artistes « En faveur de la chose
écrite » at Le Dôme Médiathèque in Albertville. The sheet of stamps
and mail art envelope by Jas are included in the full-colour 66 page catalogue
(on file).
October 6 - 28 - Victoria, BC
A selection of artistamp sheets by
Jas are included in the exhibit The Popular Art of Postal Parody,
International Artistamps from the Collection of Anna Banana, at Open
Space. Several of Jas' artistamps are reproduced in the Arts
section of the Victoria Times Colonist October 7th issue (on file).
October 1st to 15th - Sevilla, Spain
Jas is included in the
Exposición de Arte Postal on exhibition at El Taller de
Zenón. The list of participants is on file.
June - Mexico
Jas' artistamp commemorating Liaka, the first dog
in space is reproduced in an article entitled Arte Postal - el medio como
un fin, by Alejandra Mora Velasco, in the magazine ViceVersa, No.
85, page 60.
May - June 2000 - Zierikzee, Holland
Artistamps by Jas are
included in the exhibition ARTISTAMPS at the Galerie Galerij in
Zierikzee, Holland. The exhibition was organized by international mail artist
Johan Everaers, aka Ever Arts. Illustrated catalogue and press clippings are
on file.
May 2nd - CBC Radio One
Jas in interviewed by Mary Lou Finlay,
one of Canada's most highly respected broadcast journalists and the host of
CBC Radio One's AS IT HAPPENS about his participation in the Moscow project
Sewers of the World, Unite!.
April 28th - The Vancouver Sun
A color photo of Jas' head
on a manhole cover is included in the society column of Malcom Parry (page A3)
along with brief notes of his participation in the Sewers of the World,
Unite! project in Moscow and his own Smoking Room project.
April 27th - The Vancouver Sun
Under the headline "West
Van's sewer covers make artistic statement in Moscow" is a large color photo
of Jas laying on a manhole cover. The caption reads "STREET ART: No, this man
has not been run over by traffic. he is Jas Felter, West Vancouver artist,
posing on one of the sewer covers he photographed for an international
exhibition held in Moscow. (page B5) The accompanying article describes Jas'
participation in the Sewers of the World, Unite! project in Moscow (on
file).
April 27th - The Province, Vancouver
A colour photo by
David Clark showing Jas examing a West Vancouver manhole cover is placed above
the headline "Manhole mandalas make it in Moscow". The accompaning article
contains an interview with Jas by Province Staff Reporter Greg
Middleton, page A9 (on file).
April 14th through 23rd - Moscow
Digital photographs by Jas are
exhibited at the Manege Art Salon in Moscow. The photographs of
West Vancouver manhole covers are part of an international exhibition
launching the Global Mail Art Project Sewers of the World, Unite!,
created by two Moscow artists; Natalie Lamanova and Alexander Kholopov.
Jas is also an consultant on the project which is supported by ARTINFO,
Russia’s leading internet site for the Visual Arts. Lamanova and
Kholopov are continuing to collecting digital, photographic and video
../../photos of sewer covers from around the world. These ../../photos
are presented on the World Wide Web as they are received.
December 16th through May 2000 - Oaxaca, Mexico
Artistamps by Jas
will be well represented in the exhibition Arte Postal hacia el nuevo
milenio(Mail Art towards the New Millennium) at the Museo de Filatelia
de Oaxaca. The Philately Museum (MUFI) is located in the historic
centre of Oaxaca, an historic and cultured Mexican city. It is situated
in the ex Convento de Santo Domingo (ex Santo Domingo's Convent).
The museum has recently been rebuilt and given the touch of the ancient
houses of the city. It fulfills the conservation necessities of the
philatelic collections and has established mail art as a permanent program.
December 2nd - February 4th, 2000 - Barcelona
The first works
resulting from the Jas Millennium Project will be exhibited at the
Galeria d'Art ZERO (Canvis nous 1) in Barcelona as part of an
international collective exhibition entitled Year Zero. The
exhibit is conceived as a celebration of the new millennium. The three
works by Jas, each measuring 22 x 22in., are constructed of tiles made from
acid free material, empty cigarette packs, and cigarette foil collected in
Barcelona in recent years. As well the grout for the tiles is made from the
ash of Jas' smoked cigarettes. The works are protected from colour
fading and moisture by a coating of MAXIM XE.
November 12th - January 19th, 2000 - Boston
Jas is represented by
seventeen artistamp sheets in the exhibition Stamp Art and Artists
Stamps at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College. In
addition to the artistamp sheets, visitors will be able to view The Jas
Cyberspace Museum and its Artistamp Gallery on CD Rom. JCM
has loaned additional artistamp sheets from its collection by Donald Evans
(USA), Clemente Padin (Uruguay), Vittorie Baroni (Italy), Carl Chew (USA),
Natalie Lomanova and Alexander Kholopov (Russia), and Jose Carlos Soto and
Pere Sousa (Spain). Some of the other artists represented in the
exhibit are Ed Varney and Anna Banana of Canada and Reid Wood, Susan Dworski
and Elenor Kent of the USA. In addition the exhibition includes
historical postage stamps, topicals, and works by Bradbury Thompson and some
contemporary designers. Curator of the exhibit is Bonnell Robinson.
The exhibition's reception is on the Thursday the November 18th from
5-7pm. The Art Institute of Boston is located at 700 Beacon
Street, Boston, MA 02215. The exhibition was filmed by PBS
(Boston) prior to its opening.
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