Emeritus Member – Co-founder – Past President – Membership Coordinator – Web Manager
Want, Wanted, Wanting, 2018
Flag book attached to boards, recessed window on cover with paper overmarbling, marbled paper flags, 2 funeral armbands, black satin shroud
8 h x 22.5 w x 1.25″ d (closed) 7′ (open)
This artist’s book was created for the 2018 invitational exhibition – A Long-Distance Relationship: The 26.2 Mile Journey at the Attleboro Arts Museum to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Catcher, Catch Her series – Boxed Set, 2020
Includes 6 Artist’s Books: Stacey, Sonya, Louise, Inez, Claire, and Jessica and colophon booklet, hinged box with fish net closure, recessed window with monoprint on Hannemuhle Ingres paper, vintage polymer button, French linen thread
11.75 w x 7.75 h x 4.5″ d
Catcher, Catch Her is an ongoing series of artist’s books that incorporate experimental printmaking techniques and has been the foundation Hajosy’s book arts since 2010. The books are memorials to women in her life who have battled cancer. Hajosy says, “Each book has her own story, a personal narrative that’s unique. The work reflects on the definitions and evolutions of femininity, fertility, mortality, as well as trophyism. The “narrative” is pushed by the struggle with perception, in the artist’s book – we see the nets without orientation – which side are you on? These women – these books question that role… Is she the catcher, or is she caught?”
ROLODEX, 2024
Belt artist’s book with 41 hand-sewn signatures, altered book pages, ledger sheets, timecards, acrylic paper marbling, collage, weaving, chain stitching, acrylic marbled silk, linen thread, found canvas belt with brass buckle, #1/1
33.5″l x 5″w x 4″d – open
14″diameter x 5″h – displayed in circle
Colophon: 6-panel accordion features the bookmaking detritus from ROLODEX, collage, acetate image transfers, laser-printed, text in Palatino font, braided marbled silk wrap
5″h x 6″w x .75″d
Altered book details: CLIMATE and MAN, 1941 Yearbook of Agriculture, House Document No. 27, 77th Congress, 1st session, United States Government Printing Office
Cristina Hajosy
BIO/STATEMENT
Cristina teaches privately in her studio and at art institutions such as The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, The Eliot School, Jamaica Plain, MA, LexArt, Lexington, MA, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro MA, Newton Art Association, Newton, MA, Twiggs Gallery, Boscawen, NH and throughout New England. Her artist-in-residencies at the Fuller Craft Museum and the Attleboro Arts Museum expanded her teaching to K-12 artists. In 2016, she became a Poly Thayer Starr Artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. She conducted open studios of paper marbling techniques in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibit on Italian Renaissance Books. Cristina sells her original artwork and licensed designs by appointment and online at her Etsy store. She also owns Cristina Hajosy Photography, a provider of portrait photography specializing in newborn, baby, family, maternity, and lifestyle location photography.