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BIOGRAPHY
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I am always experimentally engaged with my work. In attempting to create alternative visions away from conventional barriers, I am seeking possibilities for reassembling pieces of phenomenal experiences into new and imaginative aesthetic forms in my books, sculpture and related works.
Books communicate polysemioulsy. The closed cover, turned page, broken spine, serial form, immutable text, offer their own deep-rooted and resilient combination of technology and social forms. Paul Duguid, Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book.
My idea of a book, and book-related works, are more than a temporal sequence of compartmentalized experiences, whose order is regulated by the finite view of line, page, covers, etc. Rather, the book can take on forms that do not involve ordinary reading practices such as those found in codices, scrolls, tablets, etc., or ordinary media such as paper, velum, etc. My work becomes a book the instant one recognizes its potential to read.
Discarding the idea of the book as a linear form with a fixed sequence and narrative, I have chosen a more complex temporal, textual, spatial invention of interdependent meaning-making thought. Although the physical materiality of the work is as essential as the conceptual material it houses, it is the idea that is ultimately paramount. Taking a signal from Plato s term lexis, my mode of telling is to transform and reassemble visual and textual elements into new systems. By manipulating and resituating them into chance juxtapositions, transformation possibilities are created (thanks to John Cage). Therefore, the work I produce, the autographic text I write is not governed by pre-established rules, nor can it be judged according to familiar categories. The rules are what the work itself looking for that is meaning making
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| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
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Susan Hensel Gallery (solo), Minneapolis, MN.
Delires du livre, Am Arts, Chartres, France. |
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2008 |
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ARTeNIM with Art Vitam, Nimes, France.
St'Art with Art Vitam, Strasbourg, France.
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2006 |
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Guild of Book Workers 100th Anniversary Exhibition (juried). Guild of Book Workers, New York, NY.
Affordable Art Fair with Art Vitam, The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY.
Claire Jeanine Satin: Books and Jewelry (solo), Art Vitam, Miami, FL.
Fourth International Artists' Book Exhibition'06, King Stephen Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary.
Fourth International Artists' Book Vilnius, Lithuania.
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2005 |
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Women of the Book: Jewish Artists Jewish Themes,
Stedman Gallery, State University of New Jersey, Camden, NJ.
Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center, Miami, FL.
Book Art 2005/Stretching the Boundaries, Cambridge Artist Cooperation, Cambridge, MA.
Overture: Jewish Artists, Art Vitam, Miami, FL.
State of the Arts: Florida Contemporary (invitational), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
Booking Bash!, Minnesota Book Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
30 Years of Innovation: Survey of Exhibition History at the Center Book Art 1974-2005, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
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2004 |
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The Art of Books and Writing, Art Vitam, Miami, FL.
Matter and Spirit, The Genesis and Evolution of the Book (National Symposium of the Book), Wells Book Arts Center, Wells College, Aurora, NY.
Combined Talents: 19th Annual FLorida International Competition, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Fine Arts Building, Tallahassee, FL.
Books as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
ARTiculated Book Works: Claire Jeanine Satin 2004, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
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2003 |
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Heavy Metal: Metals and the Book Arts: The Book as Aesthetic Object at the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library, Boca Raton, FL.
Claire Jeanine Satin (solo), Saint Petersburg Art Center, Saint Petersburg, FL. |
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2001 |
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World Festival of Art on Paper, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Not for Publication (curated by NY Independent curator Sandra Jackman, invitational), Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post College, Long Island University, Brookville, NY.
Unaffiliated Artists (in conjunction with the Basel Art Fair), Miami, FL.
Books Arts and Bookery, Ithaca, NY.
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2000 |
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Second international Artists' Book Triennal, Vilnius 00: Calligraphic Book Apocalypse Theme, Contemporary Art Centre and Akademija Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Elements 2000 (sponsored by Women's Caucus for Art & the College Art Association, invitational), Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY.
Third International Artists' Book Exhibition (invitational), The King Stephen Museum & City Gallery, Deak Collection, Szekesfehervar, Hungary.
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1999 |
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Legible Forms: Contemporary Sculptural Books (national traveling invitational exhibition, curated by Carla Hanzal, sponsored by the International Sculpture Center), Washington, DC.
Visible Poetry: the Word as Abstraction (invitational), Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR.
Sixth Book Art Fair (sponsored by Pyramid Atlantic, invitational), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Third Biennale: Book Arts: Image and Words 1999 (invitational), Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA.
The New Art Forum: Book Explorations 99, The New Art Forum, Kingston, MA.
Abecedarium (traveling US exhibition), The Guild of Bookworkers, Chicago, IL.
Magic Paper/Magic Book, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, Exhibit Hall at Chicago Public Library, The Guild of Bookworkers, Chicago, IL.
The Art of the Book (invitational), the Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA.
Bound to Happen, Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
El Arte de los Libros de Artista (international invitational), Museum of the Instituto de Artes graficas de Oaxaca y la Biblioteca, Mexico City, Mexico.
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1997 |
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Women of the Book : Jewish Artists Jewish Themes (curated by Judith Hoffberg) 1997-2000.
Visible Poetry: the Word as Abstraction (invitational), Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR.
South Florida Cultural Consortium Award Exhibition 1997, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.
Claire Jeanine Satin: bookworks (solo), HarperCollins exhibition space, New York, NY.
Beautiful Beasts, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Artist Fellowship Award Exhibition, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
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1996 |
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Shape-Shifting: Transformations of the book (traveling invitational), Univversity of Northern Colorado, CO.
Booknotes, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL.
Mysterious World, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
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1995 |
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Bookart (invitational), Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
The Medecine Show (invitational), Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
This day in History (invitation), Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
Artists' Books and Paper (invitational), The Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA.
Book Arts: Images and Words, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA.
Miniature Artists Books, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
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1994 |
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Miniature Artists Books, Papertrall, Ottawa, Canada.
The Book Unbound (invitational and traveling), Ormond Beach Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL.
The Anthropomorphic Book (invitational), Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
Claire Jeanine Satin: Bookworks (solo), Main Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ.
Black, White & Read, Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
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1993 |
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Claire Jeanine Satin: Bookworks (solo), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
Book, Box, Word (invitational), North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL.
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1991 |
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South Florida Invitational, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
The Book as Art (invitational), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL. |
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1990 |
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The Still Life (invtational), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL. |
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1989 |
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Artists' Book (national invitational), Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK. |
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| SELECTED AWARDS |
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2009 |
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Emily Harvey Foundation, Artist Residency, Venice, Italy.
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2001-2002 |
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Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant for Sculpture. |
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| MAJOR COLLECTIONS |
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The Art Institute of Chicago, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Library of Congress: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Washington, DC.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
The Getty Center for the history of art and humanities, Los Angeles, CA.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
King Stephen Museum, Szekesfeherar, Hungary.
National Institute of Design, Bhopal & Ahmedabad, India.
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Permanent Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Fine Arts Academy, New Delhi, India.
Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, Miami, FL.
S.E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
University of Alaska: Fairbanks, Public Art Commission, Fairbanks, AK.
Pembroke Pines Library, Public Art Commission, Broward County, Pembroke Pines, FL.
New Tampa Regional Library, Public Art Commission, Hillsborough County, Tampa, FL.
Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Long Island University Library, Long Island, NY.
Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX.
Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, FL.
Van Pelt Library: Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania, PA.
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| EDUCATION |
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BA at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.
MFA in sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
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