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Six pieces of mail art

Two paintings turned into six postcards, each about 4 x 6 inches.

Front Row Pass: A drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration of a girl in a red dress peering anxiously to her right with part of a US flag behind her

A watery squat geometric structure in a blobby landscape with horizontally striped sky
Unsound Monolith #3: A watery squat geometric structure in a blobby landscape with horizontally striped sky
A drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration with parts of two girls' upper bodies and three cut up flags; the word "Reviewing" is discernible, written in clunky script
Be Quaint: A drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration with parts of two girls’ upper bodies and three cut up flags; the word “Reviewing” is discernible, written in clunky script
A watery, blocky, blue and purple form descends from a vertically striped drippy sky onto a ground that isn't much more stable than the air above
Unsound Monolith #4: A watery, blocky, blue and purple form descends from a vertically striped drippy sky onto a ground that isn’t much more stable than the air above

An angular cutout showing parts of girls' legs and feet and a text block that has had chunks excised; discernible words include little frock, youthful, young, appeal, dear little, youth, quaint, disarming, tiny, bow, older sister, endearing, mother, love it, big 'n' little, yoke and midriff, front row pass
Young Young Youth: An angular cutout showing parts of girls’ legs and feet and a text block that has had chunks excised; discernible words include little frock, youthful, young, appeal, dear little, youth, quaint, disarming, tiny, bow, older sister, endearing, mother, love it, big ‘n’ little, yoke and midriff, front row pass
A drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration with parts of girls' dresses, hands, knees, and feet
Little Sister: A drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration with parts of girls’ dresses, hands, knees, and feet

By Elena Grossman

Elena Grossman is an artist and educator practicing visual art, graphic design, and programming for exhibition spaces, print, and screen media. Learn more about Elena