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Miriam Schaer
New York, NY
B.F.A., Phil. College of Art; Boston College, SVA
Miriam
Schaer is an Artist Member of The Center for Book Arts.
MIRIAM SCHAER is an artist and printmaker whose sculptural approach to books incorporates a variety of media and found objects. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Eastern Europe and Canada. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and collections. She has taught and lectured at many institutions in the US and internationally.
www.miriamschaer.com
Miriam
Schaer organized
A Tale of Two Cities
2 books each by 10 artists from New York and 10 artists from Bristol, England
Miriam
Schaer's work was exhibited in
Fun & Games (and Such…)
Organized by Alexander Campos, CBA’s Executive Director and Julie Chen, Artist
The Poisoner's Kiss Series: Father presses all the flowers to his heart; but he kisses the flower that pleases him best
(2007)
Xerox transfer with hand embroidery on doll dresses. Text from, 'The Angel', Hans Christian Anderson
The Poisoner's Kiss Series: How frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf!
(2007)
Xerox transfer with hand embroidery on doll dresses. Text from, 'Little Red Cap', Brothers Grimm
The Poisoner's Kiss Series: Let them scream as much as they like. You will fly up into the clouds
(2007)
Xerox transfer with hand embroidery on doll dresses. Text from, 'The Storks', Hans Christian Anderson
The Poisoner's Kiss Series: Oh shake me, shake me! We apples are all ripe! So she shook the tree till the apples fell like rain
(2007)
Xerox transfer with hand embroidery on doll dresses. Text from, 'Mother Holle', Brothers Grimm
The Poisoner's Kiss Series: The beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well
(2007)
Xerox transfer with hand embroidery on doll dresses. Text from, 'Rapunzel', Brothers Grimm
The Poisoner's Kiss Series: The executioner cut off her feet with the red shoes but the shoes danced way with the little feet deep into the forest
(2007)
Xerox transfer with hand embroidery on doll dresses. Text from, 'The Red Shoes', Hans Christian Anderson
The Poisoner's Kiss Series: They were so pretty yesterday, and now all the leaves hang withered
(2007)
Xerox transfer with hand embroidery on doll dresses. Text from, 'Princess Ida' Hans Christian Anderson
(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
No Ornament So Precious As the Labor of their Hands
(2005)
Gloves, beads, paint,
NYC/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York Printmaking Project
Organized by Maddy Rosenberg, Independent Curator, New York City, and Devorah Boxer, Vice President, Le Trait, Paris.
Golden Apples
(2005)
Site-specific installation Opera gloves, acrylic, digitally printed inset accordian book
Her Grace
(2004)
Site-specific installation Child's dress, acrylic, silk, plastic toys, found, objects, handmade Indian paper, inset codex sewn on cords woth hand-cut lettering
Homeless at Home
(2005)
Site-specific installation Opera gloves, acrylic, ink, silk, digitally printed book Translated by Armand Schwerner
M'Amour
(2005)
Site-specific installation Opera gloves, acrylic, digitally printed inset accordian book
Money Singing
(2005)
Site-specific installation Gloves, acrylic, silk, plastic toy money, digitally printed in set accordian book
Night of the Thirteenth Moon
(2005)
Site-specific installation featuring seven books, various sizes, mixed media installation
One Heart
(2004)
Site-specific installation Girdle, acrylic, silk, Indian handmade paper, inset handshaped book, hand cut lettering
She Knocks the Tears Away
(2004)
Site-specific installation Doll dress, acrylic, ink, digitally printed
Celebrating Artist Members: 30th Anniversary Members Exhibition
Organized by Roni Gross, Artist.
They were so pretty yesterday
(2005)
Dye-stained digital laser print with Xerox transfer on hand-sewn silk gauze and permalife, dress relief collograph
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.
With In My Reach I
(2004)
Gloves, acrylic, ink, handmade asian paper, accordian binding
2003 Instructors' Exhibition
Terra Incognito from the series Atlas of Surgical Operations
(2002)
Altered book, hand cut pages; beaded binding; glove driers sewn on cords from Atlas of Surgical Operations
A Tale of Two Cities
2 books each by 10 artists from New York and 10 artists from Bristol, England
I Held a Jewel
(2000)
leather gloves, acrylic, beads, ink, ribbon, with text based on a poem by Emily Dickinson
Witness to Natural Selection
(2000)
girdle, found objects, pins, collage, silk, digital print and hand-cut lettering, text by Emily Dickinson
Textiles/Fibers/Threads: The Book Show
Baby Love
Toddler dress, acrylic, ink, Xerox, plastic doll, hand-cut lettering, pop song lyrics
Fall Forward
an exhibition featuring current faculty
Guardian (of Sterile Waters)
(1997)
Xerox on Lana Wove paper. Silk, Xerox transfer, acrylic, ribbon, bottles of sterilized water.
Press them into fear/ Rules of engagements #9
(1997)
Text by Sun-tsu. Mixed media, Xerox acrylic transfer. Apron, acrylic, embroidery.
Paper, Art & the Book
an exhibition of the innovative ways artists utilize paper to express ideas conveyed in books and broadsides
Eve's Meditation
(1992)
Roma paper, silk, beads, acrylic paint; open spine binding sewn on cords
This day in history . . .
the 1995 annual Artist Members Exhibition
Fly Away Home
(1994)
The Anthropomorphic Book
the 1994 annual Artist Members Exhibition
Things We Do For Love, The
Corset, acrylic, blueprint, silk, pins. 80 pages sewn on tapes.
The Seven Deadly Sins
the 1993 annual Artist Members Exhibition
Foundation of 20th Century Thought
(1992)
Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
(1990)
Rape of the Sabine Women
(1990)
Love and Romance
1992 Artist Members Exhibition (22 works by 22 artists)
Wedding March
(1990)
Economy of Space
Book Arts under four inches
Beyond the Garden Gate
(1990)
Coptic binding with double gatefolds, in a folding box with ribbon ties.
1991 Spring/Summer Faculty Show
Alpha Lumina
(1989)
Jungle Book
(1990)
Wedding March
(1990)
Selections: Lower East Side Print Shop
Organized by Timothy Ely and Susan Rostow
Days of Our Lives
Parallel Conversations
The History of Hosiery
Your Favorite Love Songs
Travel Books
the 1987 annual Artist Members Exhibition
Celestial Voyages
(1987)
Mixed media.
New Work
the 1986 annual Artist Members Exhibition
History of Hosiery, The
(1986)
Mixed media, painted silk binding
Center for Book Arts: The First Decade
an exhibition at The New York Public Library
Bestiary, USA
(1983)
14-book series based on the poetry of Anne Sexton. Gouache, pencil drawings, xerography and found objects. 14 books, each 6 x 10 in.
From Coast to Coast
an exhibition of artist-made bookworks by west coast artists
Wedding Album
(1981)
Printed on Kodak ecta-c-print 100 copy machine, spiral bound, cloth covers
Wedding Album
(1981)
Printed on Kodak ecta-c-print 100 copy machine, spiral bound, cloth covers
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