Works by Timothy C. Ely & Hedi Kyle

Exhibition Checklist

Timothy C.  Ely

A Very Small Galaxy
(1985) Leather, cloth, meteor fragments. Single-section, three-fold binding. D’Arches buff. Watercolor, gesso, graphite drawings and foil-stamping.

Alchemy of Investigation, The
(1986) Leather, acrylic resin, sand from East and West coasts. D’Arches buff sewn to guards. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Alectis Ciliaris: Time Stunt
(1984) Drawn 1981, rebound 1984. Leather, acrylic resin, blind tooling. Single-section on Barcham Green paper. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Alternate Sky
(1986) Experimental paper binding. Single-section, unknown paper. Ink drawings.

Approach to the Site
(1986) Various bindings. Offset on D’Arches buff in five colors.

Binding the Book– The Flight into Egypt
(1986) 1985-1986. Leather, acrylic resin, blind tooling with inlaid papyrus & Egyptian soil. Painted Japanese paper doublures. D’Arches buff. Ink, watercolor and gold drawings.

Cerebral Codex
(1985) Leather, acrylic resin. Barcham Green paper. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Charts 3
(1986) Leather, acrylic resin. D’Arches white sized with gelatine and cerulean blue pigment. Ink, watercolor & gouache drawings.

Field Points 3
(1985) Leather, acrylic resin. Japanese paper doublures. Barcham Green paper. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Geotryphinities
(1983) 1981-1983. Leather binding, silver tooling, raised gesso with ink wash overpainting. Marbled endpapers. D’Arches buff. Monotypes and india ink drawings.

Interior Voice
(1983) Leather binding. Japanese paper doublures. D’Arches buff. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Mutations
(1986) Acrylic resin and graphite. Photoemulsion on paper, airbrush and foil-stamping.

On Telepathy
(1984) Photographic inlays, gold tooling. Japanese paper doublures. Barcham Green paper. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Polar Projections III
(1984) Leather binding, acrylic resin, inlayed paper images, onlayed paper strips. Japanese paper doublures. D’Arches buff. Ink and watercolor drawings, paper incised and cut away.

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

Scans
(1984) Leather and acrylic resin with inclusions of grass paper, sand, eggshell and acetate. D’Arches buff. Ink, watercolor, dye, graphite and gold tooling.

Scighte
(1986) Limited edition. Collaboration with Ruth Lingen and Joseph Napora. Handmade paper & printing by Ruth Lingen. Text by Joseph Napora. Binding & drawings by Timothy C. Ely.

Silences and Distances
(1983) Leather, Japanese paper, acrylic paste with gold tooling, recessed circles in resin with inlayed drawings. D’Arches buff. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Spirit Path
(1983) Black acrylic resin and ground marble. D’Arches buff. Ink and watercolor drawings.

Tetraplanex Cypher
(1985) Leather, modeled and tooled. Barcham Green paper. Ink and watercolor drawings. Box: linen, felt, rag board & linen.

Times Circle Time Square
(1985) Case bound in black linen, foil-stamped. Canson paper. Ink and colored pencil drawings. Slip case.

Transposition
(1986) Leather, acrylic resin. D’Arches white sized with gelatine and yellow ochre. Ink, watercolor & gouache drawings.

Umbriel I
(1986) Leather, cloth, Icelandic soil. Single-section, three-fold binding. D’Arches buff. Watercolor, gesso, graphite drawings and foil-stamping.

Umbriel II
(1986) Leather, cloth, Icelandic soil. Single-section, three-fold binding. D’Arches buff. Watercolor, gesso, graphite drawings and foil-stamping.

Untitled London Notes
(1982) Black leather over raised elements; colored ink drawings.

Hedi  Kyle

ABC
(1986) Hand-colored xeroxed pages, transfer letters, piano hinge book construction.

April Diary
(1979) Laminations of various oriental and domestic papers, reversed writing, images with watercolor and color pencils. From the collection of Richard Minsky, New York, NY.

CBA Concertina
(1986) Variety of domestic and oriental handmade papers.

Charles Willing’s Day Book
(1986) Historical covers and textpaper, reversed writing, collage, xerox, stenciling.

First Avenue Moth
(1979) Handmade paper, cutouts, watercolor, pastel.

Glintglister
(1984) Twin Rocker paper, 23K stamping gold, 23K shell gold, 23K gold leaf, watercolor, colored paper.

Goethe’s Poem
(1980) Oriental and domestic papers, pressed flowers, stencils, reversed and normal writing. From the collection of Renate Alvarez, Pasadena, CA.

Good Morning
(1981) Colored, patterned and natural Japanese papers, linen cord, wooden knobs.

Hosho Torinoko
(1986) Japanese paper sample book.

Listen to the Sound
(1982) Twinrocker paper, cloth, cut-outs, stenciled images, watercolor.

MIRROR TALK
(1986) Mirror image writing, transfer letters, drawing, stenciling, collage. Expandable concertina book construction.

Oxbow Book 1984
(1986) Handmade paper covers and Japanese paper text interlocked, held in place by vellum flanges.

Oxbow Book 1986
(1986) Barrett raw flax cover paper, library board, oriental papers.

PCA Exercise
(1986) Board, Japanese papers, transfer letters, collage material. A bookform based on “Jacob’s Ladder.”

Restoration Papers
(1986) Historical book papers, slotted and laced to pages. Non-adhesive attachment of Barrett paper covers. From the collection of Renate Alvarez, Pasadena, CA.

Saga of Yellow Woman
(1986) Xerox and collage book with mexed media.

Stick Book
(1986) Wooden stick connects interlocking covers at spine.

Storage for Ephemera
(1986) Wooden sticks connect interlocking pages at spine.

Untitled
(1982) Handmade linen paper, painted linen tape, linen thread.

Wall Book I
(1986) Handmade linen paper, vellum, letter, label and stamp collage.

Wall Book II
(1986) Handmade linen paper, vellum, and collage material.

Wall Book III
(1986) Handmade linen paper, vellum, and collage material.

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.