OM.2023.023 - Adam Roussopoulos and Joel Cohen - USA

OM.2023.023.A - mixed media collage on panel - 8 x 8 inches - 
Image by Adam Roussopoulos - collaboration Text By Joel Cohen USA


 Adam Roussopoulos is an artist from Minnesota (United States). He is graphically trained and has in recent years focused on making art stamps, with his book 'A Brief History of Something' providing an overview of his major production from 2019 through 2021. Roussopoulos is a welcome mail art contributor due to the high level of his artistamps. 

In addition to postal stamp art, he is also involved in rubber stamp art. The most recent project is 'Rubber Portraits of Currently Active Mail Artists'. Adam turns a submitted passport photo into a rubber stamp and incorporates it into mail art contributions. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN3pcAv2_lw  interview


Joel S. Cohen, artistically known as The Sticker Dude, is an American printer, publisher, poet, conceptual artist, mail artist, singer/songwriter, and graphic artist. Along with Diane E. Milder, he cofounded Ragged Edge Press in 1979, an independent, commercial, offset printing company in New York City. Principally recognized for his creative mail art projects and artistic collaborations with Thomas Kerr and Kurt Vonnegut, Cohen has been creating, printing, and distributing progressive political art since the early 1970s.

The Sticker Dude collects, creates, and solicits artwork, puns, aphorisms, and short philosophical statements--the verbal and visual symbols, aesthetic moods, and graphic social commentaries that surround us. After personally stripping these appropriations of their contexts, he arranges them to achieve a personal resonance so that old images convey new ideas. He then reproduces the works in quantity in readily accessible media such as stickers, cards, posters, booklets, t-shirts, rubber stamps, etc. The Sticker Dude distributes these as freely and personally as possible. As a musician and folk-rock singer/songwriter, he performs regularly at Open Mic events, with an emphasis on sing-along songs.

Raggededgepressgmail.com



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