Exhibitions

Celebrating 15 Years

New works by Artist Members

Rosemary Furtak and Elizabeth Armstrong said of the exhibition: “The diversity and energy of the Center for Book Arts came spilling over to the heartland when more than 650 slides of works by members arrived at the Walker Art Center for judging. Although we did not have the luxury of examining these diverse objects firsthand, there was not mistaking the vitality, creativity, and tremendous variety characterizing the work. The wide-ranging approaches included everything from tritonal fine print to the conceptual. Between these extremes were offset and color xerox books, one-of-a-kind artists’ books, books of handmade paper, and books metamorphosed into sculpture. In attempting to discuss these works we’ve placed them into four general categories-bookbinding, fine printing, sculptural bookworks, and artists’ books.

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The call for entries for ‘Celebrating 15 Years: New Works by Artist Members’ promised to encompass ‘all aspects of the book arts and allied media.’ As evidence by the submission to this exhibition, the boo arts have attracted a wide cross=section of artists with highly divergent attitudes towards the genre. Traditional, limited edition books that combine the refinements of papermakers, hand printers, illustrators, and bookbinders coexist with inexpensive, commercially produced book designed and written by a single artist. Bookworks suffered to the gills with Talmud-like writings, providing glimpses of the artist’s most intimate thoughts, stand in contrast to those whose content is expressed in visual terms and not meant to be read. Many of these works bring together the verbal, tactile, and sculptural – erasing the line between book an object; all have a consciousness of themselves as art.”

Support for the Center for Book Arts’ visual arts programming is provided, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Exhibition Checklist:

Michael Alpert

Dido and Aeneas
(1989) Pulp painted handmade paper

Judy Anderson

Dissolution of Freddie, The
(1987) Strathmore Espirit and UV Ultra text sheets with Strathmore end sheets; hard cover with Strathmore Charcoal paper.

X
(1988) Speckletone text with Canson and Strathmore flysheets; hardcover with Grobgewebe cloth.

Lumia Anjoy

Book of Sand
(1988) Courtesy of Tony Zwicker. The book infrastructure is a box (5 cm. x 135 cm. x 195 cm.) made from Ipe, a hardwood from the state of Maranhao. The (disinfected) sand comes from the beaches of Bahia and the lake at Estancia Jatoba’, in the interior of Sao Paulo. Bovine horn from Mato Grosso was used to handcraft the implement which produces the book’s “pages.” Hand-painted pure silk has been stitched for the implement’s purse. The lambskin parchment on the back of the cover was imported to Brazil from Greece.

Walter Askin

Small Deaths at Dawn
(1987) Relief line engraving and letterpress on handmade paper

Lynne Avadenka

Understanding
(1988) Letterpress, pop-up letters, accordion limited edition book.

Harriet Bart

Forms of Recollection: Stacked
(1989) Mixed media on books with found objects

Carol Barton

Everyday Road Signs
(1988) Silkscreen/offset

Tunnel Book
(1988) Silkscreen

Douglas Beube

Ashes: The Effect of Fire on Paper
(1981) Mixed media

Dust
(1989) Mixed media, silver gelatin prints

Matches
(1984) Mixed media, silver gelatin prints

Study for Matches
(1984) Toned-Silver Gelatine Prints

Richard Bigus

Her Six Difficulties and His Small Mistakes
(1988) Royal Watercolor Society Cotman handmade paper from Hayle Mill in England; 18 pt. Goudy Bible Type; relief prints; (binding: pattern papers designed by printer, black oasis goatskin-box; dutch liner).

Phyllis Bilick

Walls, Stairs, Bannisters, Project Studios One
(1986) Color photographs, museum board, book cloth

Jo Blatti

SE 1/4 Section 6, Township N. Range 21 W of the 5th Principle Meridian 160 Acres: Landscape of Hope and Despair
(1989) Numbered; — Offset, Duotones, 100 lb. Quintessence Cover, Die cut, edition of 350 Lettered; — Handmolded paper cover, tipped-in title piece, fabric-covered covers, accordion fold hinge with vellum inset — offset “pages,” edition of 26

Meryl Brater

Pugillares: Kung Tien
(1988) Intaglio, drawing and collage on paper; nylon cord

Maja Suzanne Brecht

Pilysses
(1989) Frayed bookcovers, faded prints, bits of stained metal, goldleaf, wax and old fabrics — found and brought together

Tara Bryan

Cookbook for the Energy Conscious
(1985) Color Xerox and Letterpress (title page only) on Rives Heavyweight and Rag Bond (cover page)

Gulsen Calik

Excavated Readymade
(1988) Acrylic and paper

Le Dejeuner Sur l’herbe
(1988) Mixed media (xeroxed material, oils, eggs, twigs, foam, flatware, cardboard box)

This Meal Does Not Contain Pork
(1982) Pencil, pen and ink and collage on paper

Martha Carothers

Three Sheets in the Wind
(1988) Courtesy of Tony Zwicker. Letterpress, rice paper, wood sticks, string

Chuck Cave

Book and Box
(1987) Pine and Torinoko Paper

Gérard Charrière

Passages
(1989) Twelve mixed media paintings on paper treated with resin and sand. Twenty two paintings in silver acrylic. Accordion bindings. Cover in stone, acrylic paint and resin. Signed

Solomon R. Guggenheim
(1989) Photographs by Ted Cronin with text on 24 pages. Black oasis leather with blind tooling. Signed.

Leila Daw

Yellow
(1987) Colored pencil, collage, mixed media on 100% rag board

Kathleen Derzipiliski

Billy
(1989) Paper

Timothy C. Ely

Polar Projections IV
(1986) Ink, watercolor, graphite, gold drawings on D’Arches Buff. Bound with goatskin and acrylic resin.

Christopher Erb

Venom
(1988) Rives BFK and bark paper for interior and binding of book cloth and snake skin with burlap slipcase.

Jim Escalante

Scales & Weights by Todd Moore
(1986) Hand set Spectrum type from the Mackenzie & Harris typefoundry and printed on a Vandercook sp-15 proof press on Monadnock text paper.

Mary Moss Escalante

Scales & Weights by Todd Moore
(1986) Hand set Spectrum type from the Mackenzie & Harris typefoundry and printed on a Vandercook sp-15 proof press on Monadnock text paper.

Linda Gammell

SE 1/4 Section 6, Township N. Range 21 W of the 5th Principle Meridian 160 Acres: Landscape of Hope and Despair
(1989) Numbered; — Offset, Duotones, 100 lb. Quintessence Cover, Die cut, edition of 350 Lettered; — Handmolded paper cover, tipped-in title piece, fabric-covered covers, accordion fold hinge with vellum inset — offset “pages,” edition of 26

David Holmes

Posada Theatre
(1987) Linoleum cut and letterpress on handmade paper.

Elena Laza

Venom
(1988) Rives BFK and bark paper for interior and binding of book cloth and snake skin with burlap slipcase.

Christine Le Goff

A Journey to Mexico
(1988) 2-tray box with limp book and found objects, board, gesso, bark paper, color xeroxes, varnish, linoleum cuts, hot stamping.

Angela Lorenz

Greeting from Palermo
(1986) Paper, cardstock, color-xerox.

Plastic
(1986) Styrofoam forms, plastic utensils, presstype

Joni Mabe

Joni Mabe’s Museum Book
(1988) Offset printed at Nexus Press in Atlanta, Georgia, spiral bound

Mashiko

“Where.” (II)
(1986) Manufactured sketchbook, die-cut

44
(1989) Paper, wood, silk-screen, die-cut

Barbara Mauriello

More Gaudy Nights
(1988) Mixed media; gouache, crayon paintings, gold tooling, and collage with a concertina binding. Housed in a box.

Scott L. McCarney

Memory Loss
(1988) Four colors offset on 65# Mohawk Superfine Cover, accordion fold, glued into black embossed covers. Hand assembled by the artist.

Jeanette McGrath

MICA Book
(1989) Mica, inscription filled with ink, paper, watercolor

Ruth McGurk

SelFishualized: A Guide for Marshmallows
(1987) Rives BFK, xerox transfer, watercolor, letterpress

Roland Meuter

La Princesse de Babilone by Voltaire
(1987) Full calf, Morocco leather brown-red, top edge gilt, hand-sewn headband, decorated with leather onlays, blind stamping and hand gilt.

Les Physiciens by Durrenmatt
Full parchment binding, calf parchment with veins in order to show the texture of the binding material, an underlay in black was placed under the parchment.

Lois Morrison

Search for a Gollywog
(1988)

Suzanne Nichols

Cycle of Life
(1989) Photographs, xerox, and found imagery

Mary Jo Pauly

Typographic Topiary III
(1987) Mixed media (cast paper, gouache, colored pencil, letterpress)

Maria G. Pisano

Memories Revisited
(1988) Handmade paper, photographs, collage elements (lace, thread, ribbon, etc.) etching, relief

Jo Anna Poehlmann

So Have a Canary!
(1987) Pen and ink, xerox, ribbon, watercolor, rubberstamps, collage, rice paper, one-ply Strathmore, found object, construction, bird seed.

Lois Polansky

Weight of Art History, Rembrandt Volume, The
(1988) Handmade paper, oil and encaustic, gold leaf, and powdered pigment

Ann Purcell

Kali Poem Book #2
Mixed media on paper

Sonya Rapoport

SHOE-FIELD DiskART
(1989) Copy machine, mylar, color paper, coverstock, diskette

Stephanie Regen

Album
(1985) Palladium printed photographs from antique glass negatives, hand made paper, ribbon, silk thread, flower sprays and petals, calling cards, dance cards, valentines, old candy wrappers, place cards and newspaper clippings.

The Same
(1986) Handmade and reconstructed paper from leaves, tickets, labels, stamps, photographs, cards and maps. Original text.

Beth Reisenberg

Cookbook for the Energy Conscious
(1985) Color Xerox and Letterpress (title page only) on Rives Heavyweight and Rag Bond (cover page)

Silvia Rennie

Amanda’s Papers
(1987) Dos-a-dos, grape-colored Morocco binding with onlays in silver kid and blue and aquamarine goat leather, silver and white tooling, silk double French headband.

Pierre-Ducien Martin Volume #2
(1989) Limp leather bindings with onlays. Black calf, Morocco onlays, gold-tooled title, leather headband, Japanese end-papers.

John L. Risseeuw

Bill deKooning’s Bicycle Seat Meets Post-Modern Politics
(1989) Letterpress and screenprint on the artist’s own handmade paper with screenprinted plastic attachments.

Posada Theatre
(1987) Linoleum cut and letterpress on handmade paper.
Small Deaths at Dawn
(1987) Relief line engraving and letterpress on handmade paper

Marilyn R. Rosenberg

Scalembric
(1989) Miscellaneous media includes a variety of color papers, black string, orange cord, water color and gouache, permanent inks, found and created collage, beads, brass fastener, and more.

Barbara Rosenthal

Homo Futurus
(1986) Offset

Pamela Sacher

Book/Box Construction III
(1989) Mixed media, collage, paint, pastel, handmade paper, machine stitching, wood leather

Don E. Sanders

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
(1988) Goatskin and calf

Claire Jeanine Satin

Structure of the Mind I
(1986) Handmade paper, dyes, aluminum, cast “M”s, mixed media/employing chance operations.

William Bernard Schade

Crocks
(1989) H.M.P. gouache, pen ink, goldleaf, leather

Carolee Schneemann

Eternal Ice #2: Frozen Pages
(1988) 10 Kodalith images between acrylic panels which fold. On revolving stand.

Anne Hicks Siberell

Nude in French Painting, The
(1987) Color plates set against paper from the Imago Paper Mill. The cover is made of cement and other materials. The accordion fold structure fits into a birch box.
Places
(1987) Cover is made of clay and ultra suede. Bound with silver colored cord. Paper is from the Imago Paper Mill.

Mimi Smith

Syntax Error
(1988) Computer generated images and drawings xeroxed on paper with additional hand coloring in ink.

Jan Sobota

Woman
(1989) Owned by Mr. & Mrs. Roger Hecht, Pepper Pike, OH. Book: Full vellum binding, gilding. Container: Sculptured board covered with calfskin, goatskin, pigskin.

Cheryl Solomon

Untitled in Yellow Bookcase
(1988) Vellum paper, photo copies, bound book, wheat paste.

Pamela Spitzmueller

Cooper Books
(1988) Thin sheet cooper, crumbled paper

Preserved Book Series 4
(1988) Bottle, paper, sand, wood

K. Franklin Spoor

Bindings [example 1]
(1989) Boxed sketchbook Strathmore sketch/water color paper bound and boxed in hand marbled Noisy Crow paper (oil and turpentine) with a double letter c.
Bindings [example 2]
(1989) Guard book for pictures of icons/Hand-bound 5 signatures of 4 pages in Noisy Crow papers (acrylic)
Bindings [example 3]
(1989) Notepad bound in Noisy Crow paper marbled in a contemporary version of Spanish Wave (acrylic on art paper)
Boxes covered [example 1]
(1989) Basswood box interior acrylic paint covered with Noisy Crow paper of multiple marbling to produce a “stone” surface
Boxes covered [example 2]
(1989) Basswood Jewelry box/Interior acrylic paint covered with Noisy Crow paper of “stone” surface containing 12 fold marbled paper earrings of the same paper

Boxes covered [example 3]
(1989) Playing card box with score pad/Interior acrylic paint covered with Noisy Crow paper combed in a traditional pattern, brass hinges
Notecards
(1989) Six assorted notecards of Poseidon paper with envelopes, Noisy Crow papers tipped on

Peter Sramek

In Search of Paradise — Night Vision
(1989) Computer digitized photographs printed in ink on Japanese paper, wooden scroll handles, PVA painted Davey board enclosure with electronics.

Carol Sturm

Kinder Capers by W.D. Snodgrass
(1986) Letterpress printed Optima type on Whatman paper

Sandra Manefee Taylor

SE 1/4 Section 6, Township N. Range 21 W of the 5th Principle Meridian 160 Acres: Landscape of Hope and Despair
(1989) Numbered; — Offset, Duotones, 100 lb. Quintessence Cover, Die cut, edition of 350 Lettered; — Handmolded paper cover, tipped-in title piece, fabric-covered covers, accordion fold hinge with vellum inset — offset “pages,” edition of 26

Mary Ting