{"product_id":"loren-cary-mail-art-postcard-1980","title":"Loren, Cary - Unique Painted Mail Art Postcard (1980)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eCary Loren.\u003cbr\u003eUnique Painted Mail Art Postcard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetroit: Cary Loren, 1980.\u003cbr\u003ePostcard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eVery good. \u003cbr\u003eSlight edgewear and creasing. Shadow to back top right. Addressed by hand to \"Zone Igloo\". \"1\/000\". Postal markings and rubber-stamps. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRare unique artwork by Cary Loren. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHand-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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCary Loren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenrick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48247835197665,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0532\/3787\/4867\/files\/IMG_5511_74e60089-f82d-454e-bba2-d55bc8736697.jpg?v=1777322986","url":"https:\/\/fenrickbooks.com\/products\/loren-cary-mail-art-postcard-1980","provider":"Fenrick Books LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}