Marilyn R. Rosenberg
Green wooden box, 10 x 13 x 2.5 inches. After the title page, there is a ‘menu’ which acts as a Table of Contents. Colored glass circles and squares are part of the content next to a small hand made box holding loose alphabet pages. Accordion photo copier books and pages, some with hand coloring, Â found objects and transfer letters, Â wire sculpture, dice, and beads, and a candy wrapper are here too. Â Number 3 from an edition of 5, plus master. $ 900
The piece consists of dozens of strips of paper heavily laden with bright colors, shapes, words, and letters. One mounted for the wall, and others each in their hand made box cover, Kodak color printed and mounted on archival board, paginated unbound pages. 13.25 x 3.12 x 1 inches, number 4 from an edition of 4 plus master. $700
With a plastic ring binding, a visual response to Mozart’s music heard and responded to during his 250 birthday day on January 27.  There are torn black pages, and cut white pages  12.5 x 13.75 x .5 inches, $600
Statement
Interacting within themselves and with the viewer/reader – content, vehicle, form, medium, and word, within a concept, pull together merging the themes and the means. But continuing survival may be the underlying subject. As phantoms reappear, fears and imagined fabulous possibilities, connected to the future, continue.
Biography
Marilyn R. Rosenberg, born October 11, 1934, Philadelphia, PA, USA and is second generation in the USA, most all grandparents were from the Ukraine (then Russia).  In 1993, received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York U, NY, NY, and in 1978, a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Studio Arts, Empire State College, State U of NY. Through the years, back to 1953, classes and workshops in painting, graphics, sculpture and a variety of other art, gender, history, literature, and religious studies in a variety of schools. Also, classes and courses in life drawing, advertising art, advertising publication, book and printing production (older style), and book arts and more. Dates are from 1977 until today is a body of work consisting of more than 600 titles that include visual poems, artists’ books, mail art, drawings, small press/chap books, unique sculptural bookworks, artists’ stamps, photos, computer collages and various other works. Some are in editions, many are one of a kind pieces. A small percentage were created with collaborators.  Images of bookworks appear in reviews, exhibition catalogs and reference publications. Visual poems are published on the web and in print. Latest is RED, by MRR, Otoliths at Lulu, 2008,(a long visual poem in an artists’ book, 56 pages). Included in 500 HANDMADE BOOKS: INSPIRING INTERPRETATIONS OF A TIMELESS FORM, Lark Books, 2008, image pages 43 and 229); and, VISUAL POETRY IN THE AVANT WRITING COLLECTION, Rare Books and Manuscripts Lib., The Ohio State U Lib., 2008, (mentioned in essay pages 8, 14, 15, and image pages 9, 124, 125). SOLO Exhibition in 2007, MRR, VISUAL POETRY/ARTISTS’ BOOKS, Chappaqua Library Gallery, NY. More than 200 GROUP ; EXHIBITIONS since 1977, 18 titles at Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch, SINGULAR OBJECTS: summer exhibition, Brooklyn NY. MRR’s bookworks in COLLECTIONS, a few are Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Brooklyn Mus. Lib. USA; Canberra Sch. of Art Lib., Australia; Rutgers U Lib., New Brunswick NJ, USA; Chelsea Sch. of Art Lib., England; Everson Mus., Syracuse, NY, USA; Fogg Art Mus., Fine Arts Lib. & Print Department Harvard, USA; King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary; Florida Atlantic U Lib. Boca Raton, USA; The Ohio State U Lib., Avant Writing Collection, Columbus, OH, USA. And more.
David A. Cole, from 1963 until his death, was a teacher of literature and art in colleges, as well as being an artist concerned primarily with the visual exploration and extension of language. He worked in a small intimate scale while also doing 30 feet x 7 feet paintings. In conjunction, he was a self publisher of artists’ books, a curator, a large site specific installation artist, and a collaborator in art and artists’ books, as well as a mail artist. Together Susan Share and David Cole had the FIRST BOOK GATHERINGS at BACA’S Brooklyn Downtown Cultural Center . In 1996, EDGEWISE was a continuous 3 month act of construction/collaboration in 4 downtown otherwise vacant St. Paul MN inside store spaces and windows, and the curator, participant and administrator organizer was David Cole. His work was seen in NRG, and Rampike, among other early visual poetry publications. His work resides in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Brooklyn Mus. Lib., NY, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England , and the Getty Museum, and many other private and commercial collections. Dr. Cole died April 19, 2000, just before the DAVID COLE EXHIBITION OF RECENT WORKS & AN IN – GATHERING OF PAINT STIRRERS opened at Montclair State University Art Galleries.
