Celebrating Artist Members: 30th Anniversary Members Exhibition
Organized by Roni Gross
This exhibition featured the work of the artist members of Center for Book Arts. Each artist submitted a broadside in a limited edition of 100. The theme of this project is the celebration of the contributions of the artist members, past and present, to the growth of CBA and the field of book arts over the past 30 years.
Exhibition Checklist:
Eileen Arnow-Levine
- She’s Fallen Down Dead
(2005) Offset lithography on cougar natural white
Alice Austin
- Lousy Situation
(2005) Letterpress on Rives lightweight
- Many Books
(2005) Text: Book of Ecclesiastes
Photpolymer plates and letterpress on Mohawk Superfine
Karen Baldner
- Open
(2005) Handmade paper, bleached and pigmented abaca with stenciled text/image printed from polymer plates
- Last Entry
(2005) Two sided, one side monoprint, the other side letterpress
Karen Bell
- Central Park
(2005) Digital photos, scanned fabric on double-sided matte inkjet paper
Crystal Cawley
- Time Sampler
(2005) Handset type letterpress on arches text laid, vintage clock faces printed by Raphael Tuck and Sons, circa 1900
Robert Charlton
- A Current Translation
(2005) Two color dyed lithorgaphs on Rives in evelopes sealed with wax
- Grey Matter
(2005) Inkjet print on Legion photo-enhanced paper
- Performing Lines
(2005) Paint on appropriated image, inkjet print on Hahnmuele paper with letterpress
Ed Colker
- From The Petrarchan Folio (42r)
(2005) Letterpress and digital transfer on Arches
Ana Cordeiro
- Inside
(2005) Letterpress on map folder flexagon with vegetable parchment
- Life by the book
(2005) Photocopy on metallic paper
Maryjean Viano Crowe
- Girl With Three Birds
(2005) Laser prints and acetate collage on cardstock
Joyce Cutler-Shaw
- The Poem of Bone
(2005) Digital image on handmade Japanese paper
- Communication
(2005) Black ink copy on cream acid free card stock
Elsi Vassdal Ellis
- The Cost of War
(2005) Letterpress, wood and lead type, photopolymer on Mohawk Superfine #100 cover, folio fold
- pOpcult
(2005) Letterpress from hand set metal type on unique papers (papier refus�)
Sharon Gilbert
- Spectrum
(2005) Quote from Winston Churchill
Watercolor acrylics, photography and photo copy on Canson watercolor
Joan Iversen Goswell
- Chairs on Acid
(2005) Digital print of eraser stamp images on Arches
- The Last Words of Ruth
(2005) Drawing by Peter Schell
Letterpress printed from polymer plates on Saunders and han watercolored
- Untitled
(2005) Photographs courtesy of the Library of Congress
Pigment inkjet print on Mohawke Superfine
Mary Heebner
- The Hamlet Project
(2005) Pigment print with graphite and letterpress text and gold detail on Somerset Velvet and Kitaka
Gloria Helfgott
- Go Book, Pursue Thy Way
(2005) Relief print on Fabriano Ingres and Tiziano
- Hat Trick
(2005) Letterpress, linoleum
June Hildebrand
- A root’s wrists exhausts
(2005) Letterpress, linoleum-cut on Curtis Flannel
Karen Kunc
- Afterimage
(2005) Woodcut and letterpress on Kitakata
John Laudenslager
- The Dark Day
(2005) Polaroid collage with Kodalithoverlay mounted on cardboard mounted on watercolor paper
Elena Laza
- Print
(2005) Letterpress on Fine Art Paper
Nancy Loeber
- Sissy
(2005) Letterpress and woodcut on Magnani
Lois Lowenstein
- Songs
(2005) With Alison Alpert and Shirly Venit Anger
Letterpress on Mohawk paper
10 editions of 10 each
Mikhail Magaril
- Motl
(2005) Letterpress from Magnesium plate on Japanese paper
- Laps
(2005) Letterpress on Text Wove
Ruth McGurk & Felicia Rice
- He says, you write poems
(2005) Diptych
Letterpress on Magnani Incisioni Italia
Tadashi Mitsui
- NYCBA30-Metro
(2005) Collage/assemblage with glossy postcard stock, metrocard and envelope
Rebecca Brandeis Morton
- A Note on Paper
(2005) Copper plate etching on Rives BFK
Jan Owen
- Sound of this Poem
(2005) Offset, hand “letter” in gouache, initial, brushmark and squares in metallic acrylic
Michelle Raccagni
- CBA XXX
(2005) Woodcut on Zerkall
- Still Bent
(2005) Polymer plate and woodcut on stonehenge beige
- Past and Present- 30th Anniversary Stamp Sheet
(2005) Color photocopy collage on acid free Hammermill
Edition of 110 color copy acid free broadsides/artists’ stamp sheets, each sheet 8 1/2”x 11”, 2005.
“Images of my work, I photographed, scanned, and in the computer these became a computer collage, with a list of shows with dates that my pieces were in the CBA exhibitions”
John Ross
- The City is the World
(2005) Letterpress, relief collagraph on Italia 80%
Susan Rotolo
- Definitons
(2005) Pen and ink drawing, inkjet print on Magnani Velata paper
Sybil Rubottom & Jim Machacek
- Alphabet (2005)
Letterpress from polymer plates on Mohawk Superfine
Jen San Miguel
- Ink and Paper (2005)
Inkjet print, rubberstamped on Fabriano watercolor with artificial sinew thread and buttonhole stitch
Marcia Scanlon
- Long Night (2005)
Two color print- photogravure text and sugarlift aquatint on Somerset Velvet Bright White
- They were so pretty yesterday (2005)
Dye-stained digital laser print with Xerox transfer on hand-sewn silk gauze and permalife, dress relief collograph
Champe Smith
- DAHLIA ETC. (2005)
Letterpress with polymer plates on Rives BFK
Robert C. Smith
- Waxwinged (2005)
Letterpresshandset type and digital graphics on various papers
- Life: Some Assembly Required (2005)
Offset printed on white and black mulberry paper with thread
Diane M. Stemper
- Bacterial House (2005)
Three color linoleum print with oil-based inks on Rives BFK
Larry Thomas
- Upon Reflection (2005)
Inkjet on found paper
Rita Valley
- A Periodic Table of the Alphabet (2005)
Mixed photocopied collages, vinyl, fabric, tape on acid free lignon free
Dana Velan
- Ash and Roses (2005)
Oil sticks on Stonehenge paper
Ellen Wallenstein
- Broadside Backside (2005)
Xerox print from photgraphs
Ewa Monika Zebrowski
- albergo / a roma (2005)
Hot stmaping (copper foil) on Johannot with 35mm color inkjet print
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.