Join me this Friday, December 10 at 4:30 pm for a reading of my latest artist book, Exclusions. Costumed as the Bride of Christ, I will read medical exclusions extracted from the health care policies of major Catholic dioceses and archdioceses – including my own policy. The reading will be followed by a Q&A session [...]
Join me April 1, from 6-8:00 pm for the annual Edible Books fair at the library of Columbia College Chicago. This year’s theme is children’s books – delicious! Come vote for the best edible book and taste a bit of all your favorite childhood reads, including my contribution The Stinky Cheese Man.
A Book with No Words. Altered book with encaustic & mixed media. © 2010 Haley Nagy. A Book with No Words is an experiment into what happens to a narrative when the text is removed. Specifically, I covered the words from this book in multiple layers of white encaustic gesso and paint – much like [...]
Illuminations. Flag book with encaustic & handmade cotton paper laminates. © Haley Nagy. In Illuminations I explore the notion of “the great silence of God” in an abstract manner. This flag book is comprised of densely fused, encaustic-handmade paper laminations, which glow when turned, like stained glass struck by a ray of light from behind. [...]
Sweet Baby Rose. 4 x 6. Encaustic & Mixed Media on Paper. © 2009 Haley Nagy. SOLD. I just finished binding the special commission I received last week. Before I show you the final product, I wanted to give you an overview of the process itself. The patron of this project (Rose’s godmother) provided the content [...]
This collection of images is a digital “book” that takes advantage of the internet and social networking sites to distribute the content across new media platforms. Imagine this piece as if it were an electronic set of playing cards accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Each card is a self portrait of the artist. [...]
“Saving Yourself: Steps to Preserving the Chastity of Adolescent Girls” is a collection of photographic essays. The interior pages leave black smudge marks on the hands of the reader, causing them to dirty themselves simply through the act of reading. Just as the true nature of the photographs are revealed, the participants in this dialog [...]
Handmade artist book filled with Croatian recipes, such as “war cake”. The condition and staining chronicles the turbulent and mysterious journey this cookbook has undergone. Diary-like entries and handwritten notes shed light on the life of the owner. Read more about the process of creating this book on my previous post: Bookbinding Inspiration. Nagy Family [...]
