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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?”
A River Runs Through #1 – 3, 2019
3 Scroll Artist’s Books – Acrylic Marbling on Mi-tientes paper, linen thread, silk/rayon book cloth on wooden dowels
Each scroll 9.5 w x 52″ l (open) 9.5 l x 4 w x 4″ d (closed)
This series of artist’s books convey history, narrative, mapping, currents, course corrections, interruptions, beginnings and endings. It’s conceptually connected to Kintsugi, Japanese for “golden journey” (also known as Kitsukuroi – “golden repair”), the traditional Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, typically with gold, silver or platinum. How wonderful to highlight the damages rather than instantly discard the broken. How wonderful to find joy and beauty in the empty spaces between the fragments and to allow a return of functionality, adoration and lifetime.
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.
In 2020, a boxed collection of the Catcher, Catch Her artist’s books, along with 10 other artist’s books spanning her book arts since 1996 has been purchased for the special collections at W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
During the Covid pandemic, she continues working on her curation, Vagenda – Women’s Journals, Books & Arts. An invitational group exhibition/book proposal of women book and mixed media artists which hopes to be exhibited in New England in 2022. Other ongoing projects include of her series, State of the Union: My Covid Visual Journal and a small edition of artist’s book including Trophy Wives photography and writings.