A duo of books by artist MiriamSchaer chronicles cognition through the fog of dementia via photographs and the written word.
Read MoreOne Hand included in Nest at ArtsPoetica /
I am so pleased my work One Hand, will be included in NEST, curated by JoAnne McFarland and Dominica Bucalo, at Artpoetica Project Space opening on October 2nd. NEST is one of three interconnected exhibitions in Gowanus organized by Assembly Required, a new collective of artists and curators. Other Assembly Required exhibitions will take place simultaneously at Footnote Project Space and the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse. The exhibition is available to view on the following days, or by appointment. www.artpoetica.org
Saturday, October 9th, 1 - 4 p.m (with a special book design workshop at Artpoetica, 2–4 pm by artist Rosamond S. King)
Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17, 12 - 6 pm (Arts Gowanus Open Studios Weekend---I will be there on Sunday October 17)
Saturday, October 23, 1 - 4
Saturday, October 30, 1 - 4
Addresses:
Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse: 165 2nd Street (between Bond and the canal)
Artpoetica: 543 Union Street, 2B
Footnote: 543 Union Street, 1E
Body Of Knowledge (Male & Female) included in the 2020 Virtual Editions and Artist Book Fair /
So pleased to be represented in the EAB 2020 FAIR with Central Booking Art Space by my artist book Body of Knowledge (Male and Female). Small torso-shaped books housed in Invisible Man and Woman figures draws attention to the similarities and differences in gender.
EAB Fair 2020 October 14-28.
You can see all the work featured in the on-line booth here
Ida and Tabitha featured on Hyperallergic /
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design and Maternity was reviewed on Hyperallergic. I was thrilled my photograph, Ida and Tabitha #39 was selected as the image for the article. Art Historian Jennie Klein’s essay about my work, The Mother Without Child/The Child Without Mother: Miriam Schaer’s Interrogation of Maternal Ideology, Reproductive Trauma, and Death, is included in this collection of brilliant essays about the complexities around motherhood, parenting, and care giving. You can download Jennie Klein’s essay here. Due to the Pandemic, all posts are a bit behind. This review appeared on May 8, 2020.
We Miss Her, from The Bristol Art Library, featured on Instagram /
This past May, The Bristol Art Library, featured We Miss Her, an artist book I made specifically for the library in 2001, on Instagram Created with hankies I transfer printed as well as ran thru my ink jet printer and embroidered, the text of the book is Emily Dickinson’s poem (number 993) We Miss Her. The poem is more poignant now, given world events. The Head Librarian asked me to make a short video, talking about the book. Due to the Pandemic, all posts are a bit behind. This project and video was posted on Instagram in May 2020.
Miriam Schaer talks about her artist book, We Miss Her (text by Emily Dickinson) created for the Bristol Art Library, in 2001. The video was created for the post on Instagram in 2020