Anna Banana

Helen Marzolf, Michelle Jacques, Anna Banana

"She's gone bananas! Discover one of the country's most intriguing, influential and unheralded artists in this groundbreaking retrospective of the work of Anna Banana. Widely recognized and admired in countercultural communities but overlooked by the mainstream for decades, Anna Banana has been fearlessly challenging convention as Town Fool and Doktor Anna Freud, producing parodic publications, creating and exchanging artist's stamps and other original artworks and staging banana-themed events that she documents for a network of like-minded artists around the world. It is this vibrant community of creative individuals that has both fuelled her work and embraced it, and it is their long history of communicating by mail--welcoming anyone interested in participating--that has laid the groundwork for today's social media networks. Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana is...