Joe Brainard, Pati Hill, Ray Johnson

Galerie Timonier is pleased to present Joe Brainard, Pati Hill, Ray Johnson, an exhibition of works by the eponymous artists co-curated with Rebis Rebis (Delfina Pattacini and Gaddo Amunni).

Joe Brainard has been included in a number of gallery and museum exhibitions across the United States such as MoMA P.S.1 and the Berkeley Art Museum. His works are also included in many notable private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Colby College Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In addition to his many visual art accomplishments, Brainard achieved notoriety for his 1970 Angel Hair publication I Remember, as well as many other publications, leading to The Library of America to publish The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard in 2012.

Pati Hill (1921-2014 b. Ashland, d. Sens, FR) Her practice as a writer—which flourished between 1951 and 1962—was transformed in the early 1970s by her encounter with a photocopier, turning her into a producer of pictures, illustrated texts, and exhibitions, as well as an advocate of xerography. Her work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at Printed Matter (New York), Air de Paris (Romainville), Kunstverein Munich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Essex Street (New York), and Arcadia University (Glenside, PA). Hill's prints are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France and The British Museum, London, UK. The Pati Hill Collection, transferred to Arcadia University in 2017, consists of all of her manuscripts dating from 1932, extensive correspondence, and four decades of artistic production.

Ray Johnson developed a far-reaching exhibition history, with his work presented at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. His work is represented in numerous major collections, among them the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Glenstone Museum. Johnson is especially noted for his foundational role in the development of mail art through the New York Correspondence School, as well as for a body of work that spans collage, performance, and ephemeral forms of exchange.