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 with audience members. I hope to see you there!

Columbia College Chicago
916 S. Wabash, 2nd Floor, Room 205

The original source photograph was from a collection of (now common domain) ethnographic images. The altered imagery was created using screen-print, image transfer and hand coloring. A limited second-print edition of 30 is available.

Vučica. Screen print, image transfer, hand coloring, 14 x 14, second-print edition of 30, © 2010.

The She-Wolf from Sixty Folk-Tales From Exclusively Slavonic Sources by A. H. Wratislaw

There was an enchanted mill, so that no one could stay there, because a she-wolf always haunted it. A soldier went once into the mill to sleep. He made a fire in the parlour, went up into the garret above, bored a hole with an auger in the floor, and peeped down into the parlour. A she-wolf came in and looked about the mill to see whether she could find anything to eat. She found nothing, and then went to the fire, and said: “Skin down! Skin down! Skin down!” She raised herself upon her hind-legs, and her skin fell down. She took the skin, and hung it on a peg, and out of the wolf came a damsel. The damsel went to the fire, and fell asleep there. He came down from the garret, took the skin, nailed it fast to the mill-wheel, then came into the mill, shouted over her, and said: “Good-morning, damsel! How do you do?” She began to scream: “Skin on me! Skin on me! Skin on me!” But the skin could not come down, for it was fast nailed. The pair married, and had two children. As soon as the elder son got to know that his mother was a wolf, he said to her: “Mamma! Mamma! I have heard that you are a wolf.” His mother replied: “What nonsense you are talking! How can you say that I am a wolf?” The father of the two children went one day into the field to plough, and his son said: “Papa, let me, too, go with you.” His father said: “Come.” When they had come to the field, the son asked his father: “Papa, is it true that our mother is a wolf?” His father said: “It is.” The son inquired: “And where is her skin?” His father said: “There it is, on the mill-wheel.” No sooner had the son got home, than he said at once to his mother: “Mamma! Mamma! You are a wolf! I know where your skin is.” His mother asked him: “Where is my skin?” He said: “There, on the mill-wheel.” His mother said to him: “Thank you, sonny, for rescuing me.” Then she went away, and was never heard of more.

Not only was I interviewed by Chicago Publishes, a new website for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs ‘Publishing Industry Programs’, but they are showcasing my work in their website header for the month of November. Run on over and check it out!

Cheers,

Album. Encaustic, mixed media and handmade flax and cotton paper. © 2009 Haley Nagy.

Album is a work about death and memory that features cropped images of deceased family members. Meant to recall an aging self-adhesive photo album, the work involves all the senses. The pages make crackling noises. The book holds a musty fragrance and the waxed paper feels heavy and glossy in the hand. Furthermore, a single photo remnant is left looseleaf within the pages of the book in order to further simulate the effect of photographs falling out of an old self-adhesive album that has lost it’s “stickiness”. The book is about simultaneous decay and preservation of both our loved ones and our memories of them.

Album. Encaustic, mixed media and handmade flax and cotton paper. © 2009 Haley Nagy.

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If you think this is interesting, please check out the site for 3 Blondes & a Bald Guy for sneak peaks and more information about how I’ll be using these prints in our installation.

Join me at 1:00pm this Friday, May 13th (during Manifest) to experience a group of new sound artworks, including my own experimental sound installation, Thou Shalt / Not.

Columbia College Chicago
916 S. Wabash, 2nd Floors, Installation Labs #204, 205 + Hallway

I have work in an upcoming show and publication, New American Landscape, which is a collection of contemporary artists whose work redefines the Americas and it’s inhabitants. A catalog of the artwork is scheduled for print by May 2010.

May 7 -31, 2010
Please join me for the book release party and opening night: May 7th, 2010.

Las Manos Gallery
5220 N. Clark Ave,
Chicago, IL 60640

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.

My artist book, Illuminations, has been selected for inclusion in Wax Libris II, an exhibit of contemporary encaustic artist books to be held this summer during the Fourth Annual Encaustic Conference at the Montserrat College of Art. My work will be displayed alongside these other talented artists:

Cari Hernandez
Catherine Nash
Daniella Woolf
Deanna Wood
Gwen Plunkett
Jeanne Borofsky
Josie Rodriguez
Julie Shaw Lutts
Miles Conrad
Mindy Nierenberg
Nancy Natale
Sandi Miot
Supria Karmakar

See my upcoming events page for more details on the opening reception. I will be attending the Fourth Annual Encaustic Conference this year thanks in part to receipt of the Rosemblum Award. Dr. Rosenblum grants partial funding to graduate students at Columbia College Chicago.