Louise Odes Neaderland

• Name — Louise Odes Neaderland • Born — 23 August 1932 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Died — December 30, 2022 (aged 90) • Education — Bard College, University of Iowa • Occupation — Artist and Lecturer • Movement — Xerox art, copy art • Known for — Founder and Director of International Society of Copier Artists (ISCA) Collator of ISCA Quarterly Curator of ISCAGRAPHICS • Spouse — Ralph Neaderland (1926 - 2013)

Neaderland was an alumna of Bard College (1954) and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 1957. In 1952, she was awarded a Yale University Norfolk Fellowship in Printmaking. In both 1960 and 1962 she received fellowship awards from the Huntington Hartford Foundation. In 1986 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant for artists' bookmaking.

Neaderland began using the photocopier for making art during a residency at Women's Studio Workshop, WSW, in 1982 and received a residency grant from WSW in 1982. By the 1980s she had gained international recognition in the field of xerography. In 1982, Neaderland founded the International Society of Copier Artists in New York City. She is the author/artist of many xerographic limited edition books, some of which are still available to private collectors. Later books by Neaderland include Where Could the Dark Matter Be? and a compilation, Original Contributions, of her original pages contributed to the International Society of Copier Artists ISCA portfolios.

Neaderland's art is represented in Special Collections of MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Center, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida, and Jaffee Center of Art Book Art. Her books are included in the book art collection at Harvard University Library and in the Sydney, Australia collection Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem. Neaderland continues to direct ISCA and publish the ISCA Quarterly, of which one issue a year is dedicated to bookworks. 'this annual 'box of books' is a favorite of both artists and collectors. More than a dozen museums and educational institutions subscribed to the I.S.C.A. Quarterly, helping to establish xerography as a legitimate art form. The Quarterly is thought to be the longest running international art assemblage project in the history of such collaborative projects. Examples of her book art and that of other collaborators in the I.S.C.A. Quarterlies book art editions are in the Special Collections and Archives of the James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Neaderland donated a complete set of I.S.C.A. Quarterlies to Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, along with copies of all of her books, 62 in all. The Special Collections department at the University of Iowa in Iowa City has an archive of I.S.C.A. xerographic art. Neaderland continues to make books, and she has created a book which is a catalog of her books. For thirty-five years she has used the photocopy machine as a creative tool, editioning prints and artists' books under the imprint (also known as the imprimatur) of Bone Hollow Arts, located in Brooklyn, New York. Some of Neaderland's works include Pandora's Box: 12 artists' books, The Nuclear Fan, and Force Grim Force: Violence is Legitimate Politics. Force Grim Force shows a picture of a Peruvian woman passing a Peruvian government soldier who is on patrol in Ayachucho, Peru.