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. …
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 poetry, narrative passages …
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 …
A Golden Thread: The Minotaur – A Contemporary Illumination
Mindy Belloff, artist, designer, printer, and publisher. Text: The Minotaur short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne from Tanglewood Tales, 1853. Additional text includes quotes of Carl Jung and text from Lorem Ipsum. Edition of 32 standard in quarter leather and 8 deluxe design bindings, all with 23-karat gilt edges, one hundred original drawings and two hundred press runs; 14.75 x 10.75 …
Artist, Mindy Belloff
Poets: Section I. Amy Lemmon, II. Steven Gentile, and III. Rich Turnbull
Edition 12; 10.5″ x 8.25″; 2015
“In the Garden of Earthly Delights” is based upon Hieronymus Bosch’s three-panel painting (1450-1516), which continues to entertain and delight. The book features eleven unique multi-colored etchings, with inks applied in a painterly manner from open bite copper plates. Each intaglio print is hand painted by the Artist with …
Artist, Mindy Belloff
Edition 18, 18-page; 7 1/2″x 11 1/2″; c. 1999
Letterpress Edition Text: Photopolymer plates typeset in Univers; Images: Letterpress printed engraving plates & linoleum cut blocks with hand painting; Paper: Stonehenge & Thai. Bound in gold book cloth inside a deep ochre slip cover. Poem, images, printing and binding by the Artist.
Through poetry and images, Caught beautifully weaves the story of the artist, her Mother, and …
Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke & Steven Gentile; Artist, Mindy Belloff
Ed. 5 (variations); Portfolio of Prints, 10.5 x 9; 2014
Etching, hand set metal and wood type; Metallic silver and gold inks; printed on a variety of white, blue and black papers; inside clamshell portfolio.
In Night After Night, two texts resonate conceptually, viscerally, and aesthetically. The poem titled Under Dark Cover of Night, written by Steven …
Artist, Mindy Belloff
Ed 30.; 7 1/2″ x 5 1/4″; 2008
Letterpress printed text, Images digitally printed; Red leather spine, Etched metal covers.
A memorial tribute, the call letters W-2-L-Z-X belonged to the artist’s Uncle, a ham radio operator for over 60 years. Jack was a radio operator aboard a B-17 bomber in WWII and a pioneer in early communications. “W2LZX” is composed of nostalgic photographs and collaged QSL cards …
Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; Artist, Mindy Belloff
Ed. 40, 10″ x 7″, c. 2002
Images from original gouache, ink, and pigment paintings (1997); Digitally printed with archival pigmented inks on textured rag paper with hand painting; Leather spine; Indian paper covers with hand painting; Flat adhesive binding by Judith Ivry; Text translation by David Oswald (check availability).
The vivid language of Rilke’s Duino Elegies is uniquely revealed in the bold, …
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