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BOOK ELEVEN
This work is dedicated to the innocent lives lost at the site of The World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
Its pages contain the names of each victim, age and hometown.
It is comprised of handmade paper fabricated from cotton linters and computer paper, indicative of the corporate structure which held such a prominent residence at this location.
Over 2700, 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheets of this paper are stack and assembled with in the form of two towers standing approximately 50" in hieght. Together with steel dividers commingled withinthe structure, this work is meant to commemorate the strength of the individual and the place which housed such spirit.
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Rocco Scary
email: ROC.SCARY@VERIZON.NET
Areas of Focus: Sculpture/ Painting/ Artists’ Books.
Education:
2007 MFA in Visual Art, Vermont College.
1985 BFA in Sculpture, Montclair State University, NJ.
Selected Exhibitions:
2008 Featured Artist. The Center For Book Arts, NYC.
The Impossible Bottle. Ps122 Gallery, NYC.
Sprawl; A look at the overbuilding of NJ. Rahway
Arts Guild, NJ
2007 (Un)Contained Vessels, Center for Book Arts, NYC. The Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Exhibition,
Columbia College center for book and paper arts, Chicago, Il
2006 Home Grown, Recent Paintings, Arts Guild of Rahway,
Rahway, NJ.
The Open Book, National and International Book Artists, NJCU Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.
Mutilated/Cultivated Environments, Center for Book
Arts, NYC.
Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, The Nathan
Cummings Foundation, NYC.
2005 Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Artists’ Books, Hunterdon
Museum, NJ.
2004 Book Findings, Solo Exhibition, Rutgers University.
2003 ‘Paper & Fire’, Solo Exhibition, Ben Shahn Gallery,
W. Paterson, N.J.
Beyond Reading, Elipse Arts Center, Arlington,VA.
2002 Life With Pocket Change, Ben Shahn Gallery,
W. Paterson, NJ.
2001 7th Annual Book Arts Symposium, Rutgers University.
1998 Montclair State University,Artist Books Group Show.
1997 Love & Technology, Artists’ Books, Graz, Austria.
1990 Mutual Benefit Life, Solo Exhibition, Newark, NJ
West Essex Arts Council Annual, Caldwell College,
Caldwell, N.J.
1989 City Without Walls Gallery,Member Show,Newark,NJ Essex County Arts Council Annual, Roseland, N.J.
West Essex Arts Council Annual Show, Caldwell, NJ
1988 Sussex County Invitational Show, Sussex County
College, Sparta, NJ.
Sussex County Arts Council Annual Show, Sparta, N.J.
1987 W. Essex Arts Council, Nathans Gallery,
W.Paterson, NJ.
1986 Essex County Arts Council Annual, Millburn, NJ.
Public Collections: Rutgers University-Dana Library, Newark, N.J.
Newark Public Library, Newark, N.J.
Valley National Bancorp., Fairfield, N.J.
Awards:
2008 Recipient of NJ State Arts Council Fellowship Grant.
2006 Recipient of Levin/Lutz Award, Vermont College,
Montpelier, VT.
1997 Recipient of ‘Excellence in Papermaking Award’, MSU,
Montclair, N.J.
1987 W. Essex Arts Council, Nathans Gallery, Best in Show.
1986 Essex County Arts Council Annual, Best in Show.
1982 First Annual Juried Show, Montclair State
University, Best in Show.
Selected Lectures and Symposiums:
2005 Rutgers University Digital Artist Series. Web-based
video.
2001 Presenter -7th Annual Book Arts Symposium, Rutgers
University,Newark, N.J.
Work Experience:
1998-2005 Studio Lab Assistant, Papermaking, Montclair State
University.
Duties included: assisting papermaking students
assisting faculty, and monitoring open weekend lab.
1985-1987 Assistant to Sculptor, Charles Simonds, NYC.
Duties included: assisting on works for
installations at The Guggenheim Museum, NYC and
Liberty State Park, NJ.
Organizations:
2007 The Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, Long
Branch, NJ. Artist Member.
ARTSCAP - The Arts Colition of Asbury Park, NJ.
2000 The Center of Book Arts, NYC. Artist Member.