Original ACEO & ATC Art Cards

This is a gallery page for my ACEO and ATC cards. They are all original and may be bought, when available, on eBay or directly from me.Il s'agit d'une page de la galerie pour mon ACEO et cartes ATC "Cartes d'artistes à échanger" Ils sont tous d'origine et peuvent être achetés, le cas échéant, sur eBay ou directement auprès de moi.Because I think everyone should be able to afford to own some "real" art I have begun making ACEO 2.5 x 3.5 art cards.

I make them in all sorts of designs... alien angels... skeletons... horses... mice... steampunk... whatever flight of fancy my mimd takes...

All are original and hand drawn and/or painted by me and they are available now on ebay!

What Are ACEO / ATC Cards?

What are "Artist Trading Cards" ?

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Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are miniature works of art about the same size as modern baseball cards,^[1] or 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches (63 mm X 89 mm),^[2] small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets.^[3] The ATC movement developed out of the mail art movement and has its origins in Switzerland.^[4] Cards are produced in various media, including dry media (pencils, pens, markers, etc.), wet media (watercolor, acrylic paints, etc.), paper media (in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc.) or even metals or cloth. The cards are usually traded or exchanged rather than sold.

History

M. Vänçi Stirnemann is credited in many circles with popularizing the modern artist trading card in 1996,^[5] holding trading sessions in Zurich, Switzerland. This resurgence of interest of Artists trading cards has spawned the popular ACEO (Art Cards, Editions and Originals) movement. Many people consider art trading cards and ACEO cards to be one and the same. Others feel they are decidedly different pieces of art.

Clubs, trading sessions, and online mailart communities have largely replaced the original concept of trading the cards during individual encounters, and many ATC workshops end with a trading session^[6]

ACEO: Art Card, Editions and Originals

An offshoot of Artist Trading Cards are the "Art Cards, Editions and Originals" (ACEO). ACEOs originated when some artists began to create cards to sell, in addition to trading among themselves.

As one example, Michael Leavitt specifically designed his Art Cards (2001–03) to be appreciated as originals unto themselves. His hand-painted small portraits of artists replicated traditional baseball trading cards in style and format.^[7] ArtCard subjects were drawn from varied genre, with icons such as Vincent Van Gogh, David Byrne, Bob Ross, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Laurie Anderson, Björk, and Michael Jackson. The limited editions were hand-packed in wrappers with bubble gum, as Art Cards were sold personally by Leavitt and exhibited as art objects.^[8]^[9] Leavitt said, "It's a way I created to compare people and what they do across all kinds of different areas." ^[10]