Marilyn R. Rosenberg ~ New York

Ping Pong
By Marilyn R. Rosenberg
1997. One-of-a-Kind.

6.625 x 8.75" with handsewn binding. Original from which an electro-graphic printing of an edition of ten was produced.

Book about power using the rules of the game of ping pong. A three-dimensional poem – mostly cut paper and ink – using alliteration, acrostic, and anagram.
$200

ShadowlandShadowland
By Marilyn R. Rosenberg
1996. Edition of 10.

11 x 2 x 2" closed, 9' 1" open. Double accordion of 52 pages in a dust jacket box.

A dreamscape of driving, wet driving. Surrealistic visual poetry.
$349

Tier Tear: Dry Bones and Roses Duo (13)
By Marilyn R. Rosenberg
1996. One-of-a-Kind.

Unique work that is torn and tied, with acid free black papers in black hard covers, spiral bound. Images of roses and bones stenciled. Drawings of leaves and calligraphic marks fill interfolded pages. A black veil and silk roses are included as part of the work. Small fabric roses and plastic skulls are entwined into the spiral binding. Small environments are built by unfolding and standing. Walls are reminiscent of high walls and opaque fences. Media includes tears of strings and beads, a music making device, water color and gauche, water base silk screen printing inks, color & black graphite, color pencils and oil pastels.

This piece is in the Herstory/History Series as well as the Tier Tear/ Tear Tier Series. There are more than 15 works in the Tier Tear / Tear Tier Series. In every case some of the color, and it is meant to, rubs off on to the turner of the pages. The viewer reader is physically involved in the emotion of the work. Bound to the past, this work is dedicated, in memorial, to the two "roses" whose name Rosenberg carries - her father Abraham (Abe, AL) Rosental and her father-in-law (whose name she has had more than two thirds of her lifetime) Abraham (Abe, Harry).
$990

Istoria Leonardo: What Happened to Leonardo?
By Marilyn R. Rosenberg
1991. One-of-a-Kind.

8.5 x 5.5" closed. Hand sewn exposed binding. Collage. A visual narrative of more than 65 layered and interfolded pages. Thin transparent papers see forward and backward. On the reverse, words are reversed. On color heavy pages, relationships between places and Leonardo's imagery. A variety of media used including water color, collage, drawing, photos, color pencil, and reflective mylar.

Soltes says in "Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century" about Rosenberg and this piece: "she explores the ultimate exemplum of pure intellect, overrunning her sheets of handmade paper with quotations from the artist-scientist's notebooks, with imagery and sketches and notations and observations. She is the notator and observer of the ultimate observer and notator. It is a book about a dyslexic whose words and images are turned upside down and backwards, and about the question of what it means to be different or to do things differently, whether one is a woman, a Jew, a dyslexic, or a Leonardo."
$999

Scalembric
By Marilyn R. Rosenberg
1989. One-of-a-Kind.

8.5 x 7.5" closed. Visual poetry and implied language with a variety of color papers, black string, orange cord, water color and gouache, permanent inks, found and created collage, beads, brass fastener as well as torn and tied black paper. Layered pages in hard covers. Both ends are beginnings. The bookwork can be pulled out, turned upside down and back into itself. A binding of many organic colored papers fold, interfold, and unfolds. Housed in box dust jacket.

A combination of visual narratives, visual short stories, and visual poems.
$999