Tuesday, September 30, 2008



David Zack

MEDIA RELEASE media contact: Tim Westbury
For Immediate Release telephone: 403.233.2399
September 26, 2008 email: tim@thenewgallery.org

ICONOCLASTIC ARTIST IS BACK FROM THE DEAD
The New Gallery to debut a major retrospective by
correspondence artist and Nut-Art genius David Zack

Calgary, September 26, 2008 -David Zack: Wizard!? Perturber!? Possessed! Letters and other works
of a correspondence artist, 1938 – 1995, will be on view in TNG’s Eau Claire Market space from October
10 to November 8, 2008. This extensive hands-on exhibition surveys Zack’s vital contributions to
mail art, performance and other “open source” cultural movements of the 60s, 70s and 80s, focusing
primarily on his correspondence novels and the development of the “Monty Cantsin open popstar” concept.

Art and life were permanently inseperable for David Zack (www.ccca.ca/artists/David_Zack). After instigating
the Nut-Art movement in San Francisco in the 60s, he moved to Calgary in the late 70s, working as a

newspaper journalist. He disappeared in 1995 after having spent five years in a Mexican jail for defrauding

the US Government and is rumored to have died in San Antonio, Texas.

Exhibition curator Istvan Kantor received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in
2004. His 1976 meeting with David Zack in Budapest developed into a life long collaboration that continues
to fuel his own Neoist art activites today. Pushing the theatrical, opera-like quality of his performance
work through the use of video has gained Kantor international recognition as a contemporary
artist. He is also Monty Cantsin - and so are you!

The New Gallery is pleased to present

David Zack: Wizard!? Perturber!? Possessed! Letters and other works of a correspondence artist, 1938 – 1995

to our members, supporters and the general public at
7 PM on Friday, October 10, 2008.
Curator Istvan Kantor and special guest Niels Lomholt will be in attendance.


The New Gallery (TNG) is an artist-run centre committed to providing a forum for a broad spectrum of
multidisciplinary practices and critical discourse within the contemporary arts. Established as a chari


table non-profit society in 1975, TNG has proudly presented the work of over a thousand local, national

and international artists, and remains an active, open and responsive public forum for the arts.

The New Gallery is supported by its members, the Calgary Arts Development Association, the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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If you’d like additional information, images or to schedule an interview with the curator, please
contact: Tim Westbury, TNG Programming Director, at 403.233.2399 or email tim@thenewgallery.org


Robert Watts (etc.) thanks to
Artpool


Haddock


postcard (etc.) from Tim Scannell: #1 indicates his house! (#2 is microwave towers)


Helen Hajnoczky
tea cozy

published by by the skin of me teeth

Thursday, September 25, 2008



Dale Speirs Opuntia 66A

Congratulations are due to Dale because 66A is the 200th issue of Opuntia!

Keep on Growing!


dANDelion volume 34, number 1, with work by Asher Ghaffar, damian lopes, Saleema Nawaz, Kathleen Brown, Tim Conley, Sandy Pool/Blair Prentice, Lindsay Tipping, GMB Chomichuk, Beth Langford, Julian Gobert, Tim Jacobs, j.s. makkos, Gerard Beirne, Michael Jacobson, Joel Katelnikoff, Caleb Zimmerman, Max Middle, Benjamin Robinson, derek beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Jonathan Ball, ryan fitzpatrick



Circolo Nanook

Nodal Molin


Ron Emolo

Silk City


Joki X Wilson says "Vote No on Prop 8" noon prop


a pile of PULP courtesy of jwcurry


There's something fishy about Eerie Billy Haddock!


Dogfish, The Archipelago of Tui Tui (Seattle, WA)

(from Mani-Art #113 see: here

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Friday, September 19, 2008

Sunday, September 07, 2008



Vittore Baroni (thanks to Reed Altemus)


Pistol Pete (postmarked DEC 13, 2006!)


Mark Greenfield & Martha Aitchison (thanks to Tim Scannell & Ron Emolo)


Al Ackerman hacks John M. Bennett (courtesy of Lee Thorn)