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Celebrating 15 Years
November 11, 1989 - December 6, 1989

new works by Artist Members

Michael  Alpert
Dido and Aeneas
(1989) Pulp painted handmade paper
Judy  Anderson
Dissolution of Freddie, The
(1987) Strathmore Espirit and UV Ultra text sheets with Strathmore end sheets; hard cover with Strathmore Charcoal paper.
X
(1988) Speckletone text with Canson and Strathmore flysheets; hardcover with Grobgewebe cloth.
Lumia  Anjoy
Book of Sand
(1988) Courtesy of Tony Zwicker. The book infrastructure is a box (5 cm. x 135 cm. x 195 cm.) made from Ipe, a hardwood from the state of Maranhao. The (disinfected) sand comes from the beaches of Bahia and the lake at Estancia Jatoba', in the interior of Sao Paulo. Bovine horn from Mato Grosso was used to handcraft the implement which produces the book's "pages." Hand-painted pure silk has been stitched for the implement's purse. The lambskin parchment on the back of the cover was imported to Brazil from Greece.
Walter  Askin
Small Deaths at Dawn
(1987) Relief line engraving and letterpress on handmade paper
Lynne  Avadenka
Understanding
(1988) Letterpress, pop-up letters, accordion limited edition book.
Harriet  Bart
Forms of Recollection: Stacked
(1989) Mixed media on books with found objects
Carol  Barton
Everyday Road Signs
(1988) Silkscreen/offset
Tunnel Book
(1988) Silkscreen
Douglas  Beube
Ashes: The Effect of Fire on Paper
(1981) Mixed media
Dust
(1989) Mixed media, silver gelatin prints
Matches
(1984) Mixed media, silver gelatin prints
Study for Matches
(1984) Toned-Silver Gelatine Prints
Richard  Bigus
Her Six Difficulties and His Small Mistakes
(1988) Royal Watercolor Society Cotman handmade paper from Hayle Mill in England; 18 pt. Goudy Bible Type; relief prints; (binding: pattern papers designed by printer, black oasis goatskin-box; dutch liner).
Phyllis  Bilick
Walls, Stairs, Bannisters, Project Studios One
(1986) Color photographs, museum board, book cloth
Jo  Blatti
SE 1/4 Section 6, Township N. Range 21 W of the 5th Principle Meridian 160 Acres: Landscape of Hope and Despair
(1989) Numbered; -- Offset, Duotones, 100 lb. Quintessence Cover, Die cut, edition of 350 Lettered; -- Handmolded paper cover, tipped-in title piece, fabric-covered covers, accordion fold hinge with vellum inset -- offset "pages," edition of 26
Meryl  Brater
Pugillares: Kung Tien
(1988) Intaglio, drawing and collage on paper; nylon cord
Maja Suzanne  Brecht
Pilysses
(1989) Frayed bookcovers, faded prints, bits of stained metal, goldleaf, wax and old fabrics -- found and brought together
Tara  Bryan
Cookbook for the Energy Conscious
(1985) Color Xerox and Letterpress (title page only) on Rives Heavyweight and Rag Bond (cover page)
Gulsen  Calik
Excavated Readymade
(1988) Acrylic and paper
Le Dejeuner Sur l'herbe
(1988) Mixed media (xeroxed material, oils, eggs, twigs, foam, flatware, cardboard box)
This Meal Does Not Contain Pork
(1982) Pencil, pen and ink and collage on paper
Martha  Carothers
Three Sheets in the Wind
(1988) Courtesy of Tony Zwicker. Letterpress, rice paper, wood sticks, string
Chuck  Cave
Book and Box
(1987) Pine and Torinoko Paper
Gérard  Charrière
Passages
(1989) Twelve mixed media paintings on paper treated with resin and sand. Twenty two paintings in silver acrylic. Accordion bindings. Cover in stone, acrylic paint and resin. Signed
Solomon R. Guggenheim
(1989) Photographs by Ted Cronin with text on 24 pages. Black oasis leather with blind tooling. Signed.
Leila  Daw
Yellow
(1987) Colored pencil, collage, mixed media on 100% rag board
Kathleen  Derzipiliski
Billy
(1989) Paper
Timothy C.  Ely
Polar Projections IV
(1986) Ink, watercolor, graphite, gold drawings on D'Arches Buff. Bound with goatskin and acrylic resin.
Christopher  Erb
Venom
(1988) Rives BFK and bark paper for interior and binding of book cloth and snake skin with burlap slipcase.
Jim  Escalante
Scales & Weights by Todd Moore
(1986) Hand set Spectrum type from the Mackenzie & Harris typefoundry and printed on a Vandercook sp-15 proof press on Monadnock text paper.
Mary Moss  Escalante
Scales & Weights by Todd Moore
(1986) Hand set Spectrum type from the Mackenzie & Harris typefoundry and printed on a Vandercook sp-15 proof press on Monadnock text paper.
Linda  Gammell
SE 1/4 Section 6, Township N. Range 21 W of the 5th Principle Meridian 160 Acres: Landscape of Hope and Despair
(1989) Numbered; -- Offset, Duotones, 100 lb. Quintessence Cover, Die cut, edition of 350 Lettered; -- Handmolded paper cover, tipped-in title piece, fabric-covered covers, accordion fold hinge with vellum inset -- offset "pages," edition of 26
David  Holmes
Posada Theatre
(1987) Linoleum cut and letterpress on handmade paper.
Elena  Laza
Venom
(1988) Rives BFK and bark paper for interior and binding of book cloth and snake skin with burlap slipcase.
Christine  Le Goff
A Journey to Mexico
(1988) 2-tray box with limp book and found objects, board, gesso, bark paper, color xeroxes, varnish, linoleum cuts, hot stamping.
Angela  Lorenz
Greeting from Palermo
(1986) Paper, cardstock, color-xerox.
Plastic
(1986) Styrofoam forms, plastic utensils, presstype
Joni  Mabe
Joni Mabe's Museum Book
(1988) Offset printed at Nexus Press in Atlanta, Georgia, spiral bound
 Mashiko
"Where……." (II)
(1986) Manufactured sketchbook, die-cut
44
(1989) Paper, wood, silk-screen, die-cut
Barbara  Mauriello
More Gaudy Nights
(1988) Mixed media; gouache, crayon paintings, gold tooling, and collage with a concertina binding. Housed in a box.
Scott L.  McCarney
Memory Loss
(1988) Four colors offset on 65# Mohawk Superfine Cover, accordion fold, glued into black embossed covers. Hand assembled by the artist.
Jeanette  McGrath
MICA Book
(1989) Mica, inscription filled with ink, paper, watercolor
Ruth  McGurk
SelFishualized: A Guide for Marshmallows
(1987) Rives BFK, xerox transfer, watercolor, letterpress
Roland  Meuter
La Princesse de Babilone by Voltaire
(1987) Full calf, Morocco leather brown-red, top edge gilt, hand-sewn headband, decorated with leather onlays, blind stamping and hand gilt.
Les Physiciens by Durrenmatt
Full parchment binding, calf parchment with veins in order to show the texture of the binding material, an underlay in black was placed under the parchment.
Lois  Morrison
Search for a Gollywog
(1988)
Suzanne  Nichols
Cycle of Life
(1989) Photographs, xerox, and found imagery
Mary Jo  Pauly
Typographic Topiary III
(1987) Mixed media (cast paper, gouache, colored pencil, letterpress)
Maria G.  Pisano
Memories Revisited
(1988) Handmade paper, photographs, collage elements (lace, thread, ribbon, etc.) etching, relief
Jo Anna  Poehlmann
So Have a Canary!
(1987) Pen and ink, xerox, ribbon, watercolor, rubberstamps, collage, rice paper, one-ply Strathmore, found object, construction, bird seed.
Lois  Polansky
Weight of Art History, Rembrandt Volume, The
(1988) Handmade paper, oil and encaustic, gold leaf, and powdered pigment
Ann  Purcell
Kali Poem Book #2
Mixed media on paper
Sonya  Rapoport
SHOE-FIELD DiskART
(1989) Copy machine, mylar, color paper, coverstock, diskette
Stephanie  Regen
Album
(1985) Palladium printed photographs from antique glass negatives, hand made paper, ribbon, silk thread, flower sprays and petals, calling cards, dance cards, valentines, old candy wrappers, place cards and newspaper clippings.
Same, The
(1986) Handmade and reconstructed paper from leaves, tickets, labels, stamps, photographs, cards and maps. Original text.
Beth  Reisenberg
Cookbook for the Energy Conscious
(1985) Color Xerox and Letterpress (title page only) on Rives Heavyweight and Rag Bond (cover page)
Silvia  Rennie
Amanda's Papers
(1987) Dos-a-dos, grape-colored Morocco binding with onlays in silver kid and blue and aquamarine goat leather, silver and white tooling, silk double French headband.
Pierre-Ducien Martin Volume #2
(1989) Limp leather bindings with onlays. Black calf, Morocco onlays, gold-tooled title, leather headband, Japanese end-papers.
John L.  Risseeuw
Bill deKooning's Bicycle Seat Meets Post-Modern Politics
(1989) Letterpress and screenprint on the artist's own handmade paper with screenprinted plastic attachments.
Posada Theatre
(1987) Linoleum cut and letterpress on handmade paper.
Small Deaths at Dawn
(1987) Relief line engraving and letterpress on handmade paper
Marilyn R.  Rosenberg
Scalembric
(1989) Miscellaneous media includes a variety of color papers, black string, orange cord, water color and gouache, permanent inks, found and created collage, beads, brass fastener, and more.
Barbara  Rosenthal
Homo Futurus
(1986) Offset
Pamela  Sacher
Book/Box Construction III
(1989) Mixed media, collage, paint, pastel, handmade paper, machine stitching, wood leather
Don E.  Sanders
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
(1988) Goatskin and calf
Claire Jeanine  Satin
Structure of the Mind I
(1986) Handmade paper, dyes, aluminum, cast "M"s, mixed media/employing chance operations.
William Bernard  Schade
Crocks
(1989) H.M.P. gouache, pen ink, goldleaf, leather
Carolee  Schneemann
Eternal Ice #2: Frozen Pages
(1988) 10 Kodalith images between acrylic panels which fold. On revolving stand.
Anne Hicks  Siberell
Nude in French Painting, The
(1987) Color plates set against paper from the Imago Paper Mill. The cover is made of cement and other materials. The accordion fold structure fits into a birch box.
Places
(1987) Cover is made of clay and ultra suede. Bound with silver colored cord. Paper is from the Imago Paper Mill.
Mimi  Smith
Syntax Error
(1988) Computer generated images and drawings xeroxed on paper with additional hand coloring in ink.
Jan  Sobota
Woman
(1989) Owned by Mr. & Mrs. Roger Hecht, Pepper Pike, OH. Book: Full vellum binding, gilding. Container: Sculptured board covered with calfskin, goatskin, pigskin.
Cheryl  Solomon
Untitled in Yellow Bookcase
(1988) Vellum paper, photo copies, bound book, wheat paste.
Pamela  Spitzmueller
Cooper Books
(1988) Thin sheet cooper, crumbled paper
Preserved Book Series 4
(1988) Bottle, paper, sand, wood
K. Franklin  Spoor
Bindings [example 1]
(1989) Boxed sketchbook Strathmore sketch/water color paper bound and boxed in hand marbled Noisy Crow paper (oil and turpentine) with a double letter c.
Bindings [example 2]
(1989) Guard book for pictures of icons/Hand-bound 5 signatures of 4 pages in Noisy Crow papers (acrylic)
Bindings [example 3]
(1989) Notepad bound in Noisy Crow paper marbled in a contemporary version of Spanish Wave (acrylic on art paper)
Boxes covered [example 1]
(1989) Basswood box interior acrylic paint covered with Noisy Crow paper of multiple marbling to produce a "stone" surface
Boxes covered [example 2]
(1989) Basswood Jewelry box/Interior acrylic paint covered with Noisy Crow paper of "stone" surface containing 12 fold marbled paper earrings of the same paper
Boxes covered [example 3]
(1989) Playing card box with score pad/Interior acrylic paint covered with Noisy Crow paper combed in a traditional pattern, brass hinges
Notecards
(1989) Six assorted notecards of Poseidon paper with envelopes, Noisy Crow papers tipped on
Peter  Sramek
In Search of Paradise -- Night Vision
(1989) Computer digitized photographs printed in ink on Japanese paper, wooden scroll handles, PVA painted Davey board enclosure with electronics.
Carol  Sturm
Kinder Capers by W.D. Snodgrass
(1986) Letterpress printed Optima type on Whatman paper
Sandra Manefee  Taylor
SE 1/4 Section 6, Township N. Range 21 W of the 5th Principle Meridian 160 Acres: Landscape of Hope and Despair
(1989) Numbered; -- Offset, Duotones, 100 lb. Quintessence Cover, Die cut, edition of 350 Lettered; -- Handmolded paper cover, tipped-in title piece, fabric-covered covers, accordion fold hinge with vellum inset -- offset "pages," edition of 26
Mary  Ting
I Can Count No More
(1987) Papers, board, colored inks, marker, cord
Letter to an Unknown Lover
(1987) Papers, board, colored inks, graphite, cord
Letter to Danielle
(1986) Papers, board, colored inks, marker, cord
Lori  Van Houten
Silent Garden 4
(1988) Paper, photographic silver prints on linen, fabric
Claire  Van Vliet
Dido and Aeneas
(1989) Pulp painted handmade paper
Claire  Van Vliet & Michael Alpert
Dido and Aeneas
(1989) Pulp painted handmade paper
Edin  Velez
Transition Event
(1988) Xerox, mixed media
George A.  Walker
How To Sing
(1989) Handmade paper, board, leather, cassette tape
Debra  Weier
Skyride
(1989) Paper, etching (color, collaged), string, glue
Doug  Wolf
Kinder Capers by W.D. Snodgrass
(1986) Letterpress printed Optima type on Whatman paper
Zena  Zipporah
Recall of the Soul
(1988) Old and New Vellum, watercolor, collage and gold ribbon

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