Object Poems

Marilyn R. Rosenberg
Peekskill/NYC, New York

Days

Each page of drawings, numbers, collage, holes, and asemic writing is covered with marked and/or folded vellum. Counting the days often in color from October 11, 2009, alive, up to today and projected up to Oct 11, 2011 birthdays, most days' count are noted. Another day alive to enjoy or deal with: sad days and joyous, boring ones too, but just a number like the others.

Artist’s bookwork. 3.5 x 8.5 x 5.25 inches (closed); up to 12 x 7 inches (open); housed in handmade and decorated box. 2011. Unique

$1,990

To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Twins

The bookwork and the poems/drawings can be read in either direction. Intuition, and the desire to use black ink on white and have pen point scratch and slide on paper, pushed the decision of media. The number of pages was decided by the beauty of the folds; folding in this work allows pages to be arranged and rearranged for different configurations, allowing the different poetry arrangements to be seen in various juxtapositions. Conversations are in an unknown calligraphic indecipherable asemic language, directed to not-yet-born identical twin grandsons.

Ink on paper; coil binding. 2002. Unique.

$800

To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Visual Poetry is in a variety of antique media on paper, in editions/states, or unique artist’s books, one-of-a-kind rearrangeable sculptural bookworks, playful hanging books, wall books, or single pages. Layering of the concept develops all over the single page or many pages, simultaneously: images, meditative diary notations, and multiple abstracted juxtaposed memories, within concepts, use intense fragmented language or ideogrammatic calligraphic layers. Fused notations of diverse visual and verbal expression act to merge the viewing and reading experience.

About the Artist

Marilyn R. Rosenberg is a visual poet, artist’s book creator: draftsperson and printmaker, and a unique sculptural bookworks maker, with many drawings/visual poems, a few with collaborators. Works can be found in university, college, and museum libraries and/or wide-ranging collections. Works have been in one-person exhibitions and many international group exhibits since 1977. Selected works can be seen at peekskillartists.org and local-artists.org. Latest edition: The Book of Soles (Souls), in collaboration with C. Mehrl Bennett, published in 2011 by Luna Bisonte, Columbus, Ohio