Renate K. Alpert shared word that forty works done by Deaf postage stamp collagist Paul Edlin spanning the past twenty years will be displayed at Andrew Edlin Gallery on West 20th Street in New York. Edlin, who was born in 1931, started working in mixed media 17 years ago and has developed an unique style in which all of his images are made up of thousands of tiny cut up postage stamps. Each project, which is painstakingly slow and precise and takes up to three months to complete, resembles mosaic tiles reflecting scenes of people and mythological figures, animals and objects suggesting a mystical personal cosmology. Edlin, now 71, has been a reclusive person partly because of a severe life-long hearing problem and for many years rarely showed his art publicly. The display, ‘PAUL EDLIN; A RESTROSPECTIVE” runs September 4 through October 12th.
