Miriam Schaer ~ Brooklyn, New York

Rest Stops
By Miriam Schaer
1996. One-of-a-Kind.
5 x 16 x 2" Materials used sock dryers, silk, acrylic, xerox transfer, and printed matter.

Driving directions as a metaphor for life provide the text in this leg-shaped book created with antique wood sock dryers. The hand-cut text is accompanied by vintage images of an idealized past.
$800

Pressed For Time
By Miriam Schaer
1997. One-of-a-Kind.
10.5 x 6.25 x 7" Housed in a hand-made paper iron.

A meditation on the impossible quest for extra time - our greatest, most elusive resource.
$400

Columbine
By Miriam Schaer
2000. One-of-a-Kind.
11 x 18" Materials used woman's girdle, acrylic, broken glass, hand-cut text, printed matter, and plastic toys. Inset book includes Sonnet 129 by William Shakespeare, printed digitally on Lana Wove.

Created in the wake of the brutal shootings at Columbine High School, this book addresses the issue of blame which, all too often in tragedies, is what we seek to assign but rarely find.
$1,400

Adjusting For The Moon
By Miriam Schaer with Stan Pinkwas
2003. Edition of 15.
29 x 7.5" open. Ink jeet on hand-painted accordion pages with digitally printed slipcase and ribbon pull.

This is an editioned version of Schaer's book that is in the center of her sculptural piece "Altars of the Invisibile." This small book illuminates the tensions in personal relationships through the metaphor of early navigation.
$1,400

Zelda Reflects
By Miriam Schaer
1994. Open Edition
3" x 4" 18 pages including cover. Printed offset. Double o-wire binding. Printed offset on multicolored mylar card stock. Signed but unnumbered.
Filled with images of bountiful women from vintage French postcard, and wise words from well-known people. Typeset backwards in mirror type. The pages must be read in the reflection which helps our "Zelda" to reflect, and ponder her options, as she looks back on her year.
$50


We Are Happy to Serve You
By Miriam Schaer
1996. Edition of 8
19.25 x 29" 26 pages. Printed gum bichromate on hand cut pages. Bound with a hostess apron.
Subject of this book is the artist's four day career as a waitress. Her waitressing career began immediately after graduation from art school. Includes her reflection on the merits of following one's heart's desire and "ceasing to serve."
$700

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Hush
By by Miriam Schaer & Stan Pinkwas
2002. Edition of 15
4 x 4 x 1" 36 pages plus cover. printed in ink jet. Bound link stitch. First produced as part of a unique artist book as the inset book for one of Schaer's unique sculptural artists' books. "Hush" was first shown at Ceres Gallery in New York City in 2002. It is Miriam's personal response to the attack on the World Trade Center. "Hush" explores the feelings of vulnerability experienced by so many after the attacks.
$85

M(o)urning Prayer
By Miriam Schaer
1998. One-of-a-Kind. Girdle measuring 15.5 x 10.5 x 7 inches closed; 15.5 x 17 x 7 inches, opened. Inset Book measures 4 x 3.5 x .25. Media used girdle, acrylic, silk, dye, hand cut letter, Xerox transfer, printed matter with found objects.
Miriam created this piece after her father's death in 1998. This book looks at the process of mourning. The star shaped inset book contains text of Kaddish, the Jewish Prayer for the dead, with collaged images of eyes over the text, looking out at the viewer seeking to make a connection. In the
cartouches in the interior of the bustier are small fragments, memories of the life that has passed, which emulates the tradition in Judaism of leaving
a stone marker on the grave, acknowledging both the visitor as well as the one who is gone.
$1,400

Theatre of War
By Miriam Schaer
1992. Edition of 3
12 x 12 x 3" Pop-up with six pages. Printed by silkscreen. Incorporates Xerox collage and plastic toys.
Created in response to the first Gulf War. The viewer of the war sits at home, surrounded by food, drink and toys of war. Each page contains a pop-up television with collages of the scene of the plays, many of whom are involved now in the current Gulf War.
$800