The Golden Hair of Medusa – A Contemporary Illumination
Mindy Belloff, artist, designer, printer, and publisher. Text from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, The Gorgon’s Head, a retelling of the myth of Medusa in A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Heroes & Monsters of Greek Mythology, published in 1852. Additional text from Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book IV and V, quotes of Sigmund Freud on Medusa and the castration complex, Carl G. …

Book + Video. Edition of 26 lettered A-Z, with 10 numbered deluxe, printed letterpress, front and verso. Page designs in red ink with brown text, with over 50 original drawings. The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice – by William Shakespeare: 192-pages printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine. The Tragedy of Desdemona – by Mindy Belloff: 150-pages printed letterpress on Johannot Arches cotton rag papers, text includes ancient Nag Hammadi …

Pandemic is a diary-like unfolding of the events around the global spread of Covid-19. It chronicles the early days of the virus and the rising count of people who succumbed to it from March 2020 to May 2022, including the lock-down in New York City and Black Lives Matter protests. Materials found around the studio were used for printing, including paper off-cuts and hand set metal type.

Hand written text …

Hester . Emma . Sonia
Joni . Annie . Tracy
A Postmodern Feminist Discourse
Ed. 32, (26 Standard and 6 Deluxe: three each of two designs), 10.5 x 7.75 x 1.75 inches; 300-pages, 2021.
Main text excerpted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” Gustave Flaubert’s “Madam Bovary,” and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” Concept, designs, typography, artworks, printing, and publishing by Mindy Belloff, NYC. A 3-year project, the edition includes …