Cary Loren.
Unique Painted Mail Art Postcard.
Detroit: Cary Loren, 1980.
Postcard.
Very good.
Slight edgewear and creasing. Shadow to back top right. Addressed by hand to "Zone Igloo". "1/000". Postal markings and rubber-stamps.
Rare unique artwork by Cary Loren.
Hand-painted and spray-painted with stencils on postcard. This card is not signed by Cary Loren, but his art style is recognizable and Loren confirmed that this is his artwork. A scarce remnant of Loren's mail-art activities as well as a unique artwork.
Cary Loren (1955) is an artist, musician, publisher and bookstore keeper from Oak Park, Michigan. Together with Niagara, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, Loren was a founding member of proto-punk noise band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s. He teamed up with the Miller brothers in the short-lived band Xanadu in the late 1970s and with Barry Roth in Nightcrawlerz in the 1980s. Loren founded his psych-folk band Monster Island in 1995. As a visual artist Loren has been active as a photographer, filmmaker and collagist since the early 1970s. Together with his wife Colleen Kammer, he has run Book Beat, a fine independent bookstore in Oak Park, Michigan, since 1982. Through his label and press The End Is Here / Book Beat Loren publishes books, zines, CDs and records – most of them related to Destroy All Monsters – and documents Detroit’s radical subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s.
