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exhibition archive
Bruce Schnabel
Los Angeles, CA
b. 1951
Bruce
Schnabel's work was exhibited in
Center for Book Arts: The First Decade
an exhibition at The New York Public Library
Navaho Blanket Journal I
(1977)
Nigerian goatskin binding; goatskin inlay and onlay, embroidered silk headbands. Collection of Susan Jacobs.
Less is More
limited edition and unique bookworks
Tikal Codices
(1981)
Eight hinged equilateral triangles (six of which form a hexagon) of hand-dyed silk broadcloth, silkscreen on silk, glass seed beads, color foils, gold.
The Book
seven artists/different visions
A Bug Book, Pictural Insect Specimens
(1979)
Original gouache paintings color Xeroxed on Wooky Hole paper, dry-mounted on Roma (Fabriano) paper with subtle ink graphics. Title page tooled with black foil with dry-mounted Xerox cartouche. Nigerian goatskin binding, Nigerian goat and reverse Nigerian goat only, damp-scribed. Red silk embroidered headbands.
Guide General de Beaubourg
(1980)
Tooled drawings with gold and colored foils on Roma (Fabriano) paper. Title page is a color Xerox print of stenciled letters. Nigerian goatskin binding, tooled with color foil, reverse Nigerian goatskin onlays tooled with color foils. Silk embroidered headbands.
Lisa
(1979)
A series of 12 original monoprints from color Xerox and black and white Xerox postcards by Harvey Redding, dry-mounted on Roma (Fabriano) paper. Title page tooled with color foil and rubber stamped. Nigerian goatskin binding. Reverse Nigerian goatskin onlay tooled with color foil.
Navaho Blanket Journal I
(1977)
Nigerian goatskin binding; goatskin inlay and onlay, embroidered silk headbands. Collection of Susan Jacobs.
Notes from the Etymologist's Journal, III
(1979)
Original gouache paintings and collage color Xeroxed on T. H. Saunders Wooky Hole mouldmade paper. Title page tooled with black foil. Binding is Nigerian goatskin with dyed Nigerian goatskin onlay, blind tooled. Glass seed beads sewn through perforations in leather-covered boards. Turquoise silk embroidered headbands.
Still Life Box
(1976)
Nigerian goatskin folding box, onlay/inlay tinted and dyed Nigerian goatskin cover designed by Harvey Redding. Lined with Roma (Fabriano) paper.
Book Makers
Center for Book Arts first five years
A Bug Book, Pictural Insect Specimens
(1979)
Original gouache paintings color Xeroxed on Wooky Hole paper, dry-mounted on Roma (Fabriano) paper with subtle ink graphics. Title page tooled with black foil with dry-mounted Xerox cartouche. Nigerian goatskin binding, Nigerian goat and reverse Nigerian goat only, damp-scribed. Red silk embroidered headbands.
Gilder's Notes
(1978)
Gold-tooled drawings on Roma paper, pieced Nigerian goatskin binding, scribed.
notes from the Etymologist's Journal, I.
(1979)
Color Xerox of gouache paintings and collage mounted on Roma paper, Nigerian goatskin binding with onlay, damp scribed.
notes from the Etymologist's Journal, II
(1979)
Color Xerox of gouache paintings mounted on Roma paper, Nigerian goatskin binding with onlay, tooled with colored foils and in blind.
Notes from the Etymologist's Journal, III
(1979)
Original gouache paintings and collage color Xeroxed on T. H. Saunders Wooky Hole mouldmade paper. Title page tooled with black foil. Binding is Nigerian goatskin with dyed Nigerian goatskin onlay, blind tooled. Glass seed beads sewn through perforations in leather-covered boards. Turquoise silk embroidered headbands.
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