Natural Selections
12 artists' books
By Louise Odes Neaderland
Brooklyn, New York: Louise Odes Neaderland, 2014.

9.75 x 8.25 x 2.25" box containing twelve books for various sizes and constructions. Edition size unstated.

Twelve books by Louise Neaderland: The Case for Gun Control; 23 Sins; Hazardous Waste; The Vanishing Act; American Ballet Theatre; Artist At Work; Brokers Study Vast Hole in Space; Open Roads Empty Nests; The Stones Roll On; The Heart of Lightness; alphagami; Where is Home?

The Case for Gun Control
Brooklyn, New York: Louise Neaderland, 1994. Second edition of 13. 5.5 x 4"; 12 pages. In wraps. Saddle stitched. Signed and numbered on back cover. Paper gun included. Louise Neaderland: "A cut out of a directly imaged plastic gun and a booklet of excerpts, stamped 'EVIDENCE' from news articles about a rash of violent gun related crimes in N.Y.C. Streamers of red plastic pour from the muzzle of the gun."

23 Sins

Hazardous Waste
Brooklyn, New York: Bone Hollow Arts, 1996. First Edition. 5.25 x 4.5"; 14 leaves. Staple fold binding. Front cover presents a black and white photocopied image of an aerial photograph of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on public display. Original photo of the AIDS Memorial quilt taken by Marylin Humphries. A folded red ribbon pinned to the front cover. Book contains black & white folded photocopies with text. Page 1 quotation: "In 1992 the World Health Organization found that 1 in every 250 adults in the world was infected with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS."

The Vanishing Act
Brooklyn, New York: ISCA, 1982. 4.25 x 4.25" closed; 20 pages. Accordion. Photocopy of original photographs taken by Neaderland's son. Neaderland walks among the trees, hiding, emerging, and finally disappearing behind two trees.

American Ballet Theater
Brooklyn, New York: Bone Hollow Arts, 2000. 4.25 x 5.5"; 8 pages. Photocopy of original photograph of steel workers by the artist. Text from Jack Kerouac's On the Road. In wraps with saddle stitch binding. Louise Neaderland: "This is a revised edition of Homage to Jack Kerouac – the only change being the title and the cover. Text is from On The Road, 'then they danced down the street like dungledodies ... .' The book is a series of photographs taken by the artist, of steel workers erecting a gymnasium."

Artist at Work
Brooklyn, New York: Bone Hollow Arts, 1982. 6.5 x 4.5"; 4 pages. Accordion. In yellow wraps. Photocopy. Signed and dated by the artist. Louise Neaderland: "The artist's cat, Noodles, sits upon a work in progress (Brokers Study Vast Hole in Space) to show who is really in charge here."

Brokers Study Vast Hole in Space
Brooklyn, New York: Bone Hollow Arts, 1982. 8.5 x 8" closed; 12 pages. Accordion. Black and white photocopy. A copy of a press picture of Wall Street brokers with the image punctuated by successive repetitions of parts and extension of the accordion. Louise Neaderland: "The artist can't seem to get away from that vast hole in space. Perhaps a meditation on priorities and a sense of proportion is required of us."

Open Roads Empty Nests New
York City: Louise Neaderland, 1988. 5.5 x 8.5; 18 pages. Staple fold cover. Photocopy. Louise Neaderland: "A series of photographs taken by the artist of her daughter when she bid farewell to Cornell University. Standing on some wooden steps in the woods, she spreads her arms, against a backdrop of a map, turns and continues up the staircase and disappears over the top leaving an empty staircase and a dictionary definition of the word NEST. In the final page the Graduate floats freely over a navigational map of the Pacific Ocean."

The Stones Roll On
Louise Neaderland, 1982. 6.5 x 8.5"; 8 pages. Accordion fold. Photocopy. Louise Neaderland: "Multiple copies of a single news photo and article about a Rolling Stones concert are overlapped to create a dynamic image of a Mick Jagger performance while multiples of the text 'Refusing to Become Show Business-Slick' frame the action."

The Heart of Lightness

alphagami
Brooklyn, New York: Bone Hollow Arts, 1998. 3 x 3" origami form. Louise Neaderland: "Each book uses different decorated papers and opens into four configurations. Remove paper clip from front cover and clip front and back covers together. Then flip open and shut to create the 4 configurations."

Where is Home
Brooklyn, New York: Bone Hollow Arts, 1987. Revised edition. 7 x7.5"; 20 pages including wraps. Sewn binding. Photocopy. Louise Neaderland: "Photographs taken by the artist of the words 'Where is Home,' written in the sand and washed out by the tide. Rubber stamp images of the sphinx, a chameleon and the rubber stamped words 'where is home?' as the tide washes everything away. The final page is of footprints in the sand and four photo mount corners with no photo inserted in them ... only the words, 'where is home?'."
$125 (Last Copy)