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Barbara Mauriello
Hoboken, NJ
New York University

BARBARA MAURIELLO is a book artist who has a bookbinding studio in Hoboken, NJ. Barbara is the author of Making Memory Boxes. She is also a visiting instructor at the International Center of Photography, the Newark Museum, the Paper and Book Intensive and the Penland School of Crafts.

Barbara  Mauriello organized
2002 Artist Members' Juried Exhibition

Fall Forward
 an exhibition featuring current faculty

Barbara  Mauriello's work was exhibited in
(un)Contained Vessels
 Artist Members Annual Exhibition, Co-organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director, The Center for Book Arts, and Pamela Spitzmueller, Book Artist and James W. Needham Chief Conservator for Special Collections, The Harvard University Library and the College Library
Artists' Housing (Anonymous, Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Julia Margaret Cameron, Sonia Delaunay, Emily Dickenson, Harper Lee, Liubov Popov, Virginia Woolf)
(2004) Mixed media; set of 9 boxes
30 Years of Innovation: A Survey of Exhibition History at The Center for Book Arts, 1974-2004
 Organized by Jae Jennifer Rossman, Special Collections Librarian, Arts Library, Yale University.
Moon Over the Mountain
(2004) Collograph printed from cardboard plates, St. Armand paper, goatskin molded over shaped boards, plastic buttons and leather ties, double sided accordian-fold box
2003 Instructors' Exhibition
Parchment People
(2002) 17th & 18th c. parchment; "house of cards" construction with embroidery and buttons (box). Rounded case binding with embroidery and buttons (book)
Textiles/Fibers/Threads: The Book Show
207 Buttons, and Counting . . .
(1997) Limp vellum tacet binding, decorated with embroidery and buttons. Photos framed with assorted Japanese painted papers. Cloth-covered folding box.
Fall Forward
 an exhibition featuring current faculty
207 Buttons, and Counting . . .
(1997) Limp vellum tacet binding, decorated with embroidery and buttons. Photos framed with assorted Japanese painted papers. Cloth-covered folding box.
The Illustrated Book
 an exhibition of artits' books that emphasize the power of image to convey ideas.
Twelve Eyptian Chairs
Letterpess with gouache painting, gold tooling, and collage
Masters of the Craft
 works by instructors of book arts
Album & Box
(1993) Paper, cloth, plexiglass, buttons, wood cut
Hedi Kyle & Her Influence: 1977-1993
 a survey of works influenced by Kyle's work
More Gaudy Nights
(1988) Mixed media; gouache, crayon paintings, gold tooling, and collage with a concertina binding. Housed in a box.
Guiding Hands
 Center for Book Arts 1992 faculty show
Untitled
(1991) Leatherbound book with gold tooling
Untitled
(1991) Clothbound blank book
1991 Spring/Summer Faculty Show
Icones Plantarum
(1988)
More Gaudy Nights
(1988) Mixed media; gouache, crayon paintings, gold tooling, and collage with a concertina binding. Housed in a box.
Paper Quilts
(1979) Quilt patterns on handmade paper
Book Arts in the USA
 an exhibition of work by 51 artists; a cultural presentation of the United States of America
Women of the Bible: From Abigail to the Queen of Sheba
(1985) 16 cubes covered in remnants of an 18th century illustrated book with handwritten text on paper accordion inside each cube, all in a cloth folding box.
Celebrating 15 Years
 new works by Artist Members
More Gaudy Nights
(1988) Mixed media; gouache, crayon paintings, gold tooling, and collage with a concertina binding. Housed in a box.
1998 Member Exhibition
Long Stitch Binding Model
(1988) Japanese papers with vellum spine support, cotton embroidery thread. Unique.
Paper Quilts
(1979) Book sewn on vellum tapes, laced-on boards, drop-spine box
Book Artchitecture
 an exhibition in which the structure of the book supports the metaphor of the content or is the content
Women of the Bible: From Abigail to the Queen of Sheba
(1985) 16 cubes covered in remnants of an 18th century illustrated book with handwritten text on paper accordion inside each cube, all in a cloth folding box.
Center for Book Arts: The First Decade
 an exhibition at The New York Public Library
Floating Carpets
(1984) Embroidered vellum, paper and silk pictures; bound with brass rods.
The Thread of an Idea
 small scale book art exhibits: books with continuing or connecting lines
Bird Book
(1982) Oriental binding and folding
Fruit Frieze
(1982) Accordion fold book with vellum envelope
Kimono Book
(1983) Stencilled, painted and printed pages, sewn onto concertina; folding box
Paper Quilts
(1979) Book sewn on vellum tapes, laced-on boards, drop-spine box
Stories Your Mother Never Told You
 artists' books which feature a narrative line within a visual work
It Took Me More Than 20 Years
(1981) Rubber stamped letters, painted and printed images, watercolors and inks on paper.
Book Makers
 Center for Book Arts first five years
Paper Quilts
(1979) Quilt patterns on handmade paper

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