Miriam Schaer

Miriam Schaer is a multimedia book artist. She uses garments––girdles, bustiers, brassieres, gloves, aprons, children’s' clothes-as her means of containment. Inside these stiffened, shaped, embellished enclosures, she conceals books and other objects that document her explorations of feminine, social, and spiritual issues. Since 1993, she has exhibited steadily and extensively in solo and group exhibitions in the US and internationally, and her work has been mentioned in a long list of articles and reviews. She is a recipient of a NYFA Artists Fellowship and her work has been included in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at Douglass Library, the oldest and longest-running exhibition series dedicated to showcasing women artists in the United States. Her work was included in the biennale, Imagining the Book 2007 at the Bibliotheca National in Alexandria, Egypt, and she participated in the 4th International Artist Book Fair in Seoul, South Korea.

-statement by the artist

Miriam Schaer lives in Brooklyn and more of her work can be seen here

About the images:

Top:
Body of Knowledge (male), 2002, 17 x 7 x 6.5, inset book 5 x 3.5 x .5, Plastic figure, dye, linen thread. Book created and figure lined with text from Atlas of Surgical Operations
(image shown here is a detail)

Bottom:
Hands of Josephus: Part 2, 2008
10.5 x 4 x 28, altered text from Josephus: History of the Jews, beads, wire hand forms