Marilyn R. Rosenberg

Biography

As usual, my sheets/pages are actual images made with traditional misc. media, then often scanned into the computer to change. Asemic and visual poems start with marks made with pens and brushes, templates, inks, and gouache. When these works are scanned into the computer, edition pages and artists' books/book works emerge. My works are in virtual exhibitions, on blogs, and in web publications, reviews, as well as collected by museum and university libraries.

Artist statement

Marilyn R. Rosenberg's visual poems, asemic writing, and drawings are in Artists' Books. The artists’ book is not a book containing art or about art - first and foremost these are integrated works of the visual/verbal arts, often with visual poetry. Related components are connected by more than binding or pagination or covers. Yet they incorporate practical concerns of regular books; many functions as books. Artists’ books and book works are artworks/literature works with content, form, and structure in some way connected to the idea of reading, to some aspect of ‘book’, and/or to the structure/object or idea of the book, or to a fragment of the book (e.g. a page). The physical space, the structure, is decided by the content and the concept behind it. Each page is an entirety in and of itself, but each is also a  part of the whole.  Physical space is linked to the visual and verbal elements; image and structure are fused to idea and content. In works without any words at all, the reading sensation still exists. There are pages that may or may not look like pages, that may or may not be bound, and that may or may not turn. The two and three-dimensional are often united; the resolution is both two and three-dimensional. The master of the edition and the part of an edition, or the unique bookwork sits in space in the same way any other sculptural object occupies space and can be any size. Like any book, artists’ books or book works are involved with sequential ideas, moving in time and space.