Claire Satin

I am a multidisciplinary artist with a primary devotion to the creation of bookworks. Using a wide range of materials including recycled and handmade materials/mediums such as metals, plastics, fabrics, prints, metallic overprinting, crystals, sequins and many others find their way in my books. I've been creating bookworks for over 45 years experimenting with both form and content. Since meeting the immensely influential charismatic sound artist John Cage in 1972, I was and have been captivated by his theory of indeterminacy or chance which I have largely applied to my works since that time. Employing that concept has produced unexpected configurations which never would have appeared otherwise. My use of transparency has enhanced the visual effect of that concept.

I have created over 450 bookworks employing the concept of indeterminacy, which has no visual limitations, and I will continue to explore them. I have had some recognition and good fortune to have my bookworks acknowledged both in the United States and abroad with ten works acquired by The Rare Books and Special Collections of the Library of Congress and many other highly regarded art institutions.

CLAIRE JEANINE SATIN (b. 1935)

EDUCATION:
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY - MFA in Sculpture
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY - BA


MAJOR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Washington, DC
THE GETTY CENTER, Los Angeles, CA
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, Washington, DC
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, London, UK
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, NY
ARTHUR & MATA JAFFE COLLECTION, S.E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA, FAIRBANKS, Public Art Commission, State of Alaska
PEMBROKE PINES LIBRARY, Public Art Commission, Broward County, Pembroke Pines, FL
NEW TAMPA REGIONAL LIBRARY, Public Art Commission, Hillsborough County, Tampa, FL
MARRIOTT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, Salt Lake City, UT
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Long Island, NY
DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY, Dallas, TX
MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM, Miami, FL
VAN PELT LIBRARY: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, University of Pennsylvania, PA
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, Orlando, FL
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, Otto Richter Library, Miami, FL
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA, Prints & Pictures Collection, Philadelphia, PA
WILLIAMSBURG ART AND HISTORICAL CENTER,Brooklyn, NY

SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Artful Book, The Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, November 13, 2021- January 16, 2022
2020 From Concept to Creation: The Bookworks & Related Works of Claire Jeanine Satin, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, February 15- ongoing
2020 Large Scale Constructions by Claire Jeanine Satin, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, FL, January 3rd-Febrayry 26th, 2020
2019 Drawing Nature, Sacrosanct Gallery, Hartford, CT, February 1 – 28, 2019
2019 International Antiquarian Book Fair, Oakland, CA, by Kelmscott Books, Baltimore, MD, February 8 – 10, 2019
2018 Terra In Firma, Hebrew Union College Museum, New York, NY, September 6, 2018 – June 30, 2019
2018 Submerged, Sacrosanct Gallery, Connecticut, August 1 – August 31, 2018
2018 Reliquary, Sacrosanct Gallery, Connecticut, July 1 – July 31, 2018
2018 Grotto, Sacrosanct Gallery, Connecticut, June 1 – July 1, 2018
2017The Whitespace Collection, Art Basel at the Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
2017-2018“HOME(less)”,The Hebrew Union College, New York, NY
2017 The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat, Jewish Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2013-14 The Seventh Day: Shabbat Revisited; Hebrew Union College Museum, New York, NY
2012 Text & Con...