Come and join Maria G. Pisano on Memorial Day weekend, in her new gallery in
New Hope, PA, at 430 Union Square Drive. 609 799 3941 or 215 862 9690.
The gallery will feature prints, photographs, and handmade paper works. The
gallery will also carry blank journals, artist books, and handmade greeting
cards. Designed on the European model, the gallery will be both an exhibit space
and the artist's studio, where she can be seen at work. It is here that you
can see Maria binding some of her books from Memory Press. She will also be
offering book arts classes for children and adults.
The first exhibit is "Facades" - encompassing photographs, prints and
handmade paper works.
Exhibition Statement: Visual and structural patterns found in architecture,
within nature and one's culture, are recurring themes in my work. We build
structures to protect that which is within, to hide, conceal and transform. The
resulting landscape is one of continual flux where the colors, the patterns,
the wear and tear, all speak of time, memory and history captured on the faces
of everyday walls and everyday people.
Bio:
Maria G. Pisano publishes her limited edition artist's books under the Memory
Press imprint. Some of the works can be seen at the Book Arts web site
http://www.philobiblon.com, under the gallery link. Her works are in numerous
private and public collections including the Library of Congress, the American Art
Museum and National Portrait Gallery, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of
Concrete and Visual Poetry, Harvard University, Stanford University, The Museum
of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, the New York Public Library, the University
of Alberta and many more. Last year she was an artist in residence at
Lafayette College in PA. This past April she was artist in residence at Stephen F.
Austin State University in Texas. She has published a number of articles in
book arts publications including: Tabaellae Ansatae and Dog Eared Magazine. Her
work is featured in a number of books including Making Memory Books by Hand by
Kristina Feliciano, and Digital: Printmaking Now, published by the Brooklyn
Museum of Art.
She teaches all aspects of the Book Arts, papermaking, printing, bookbinding
and conservation. She has taught at Rutgers Mason Gross and at the RCIPP, The
Center for Book Arts in NY, Oklahoma Arts Institute, and many other venues.
She has served as project consultant for two grants at the Newark Public
Library for the preservation, treatment and storage of their fine print collection.
She has over the years been continually involved in curating and mounting
exhibit. This summer, she will be curating "The Elements: Creative Energy" at the
Hunterdon Museum of Art, in Clinton.
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