Elaine Reichek transposes classical paintings into embroidered works. She first scans the reproductions of the paintings and runs the scans through software that maps them as coded embroidery charts. Of primary interest in this small portfolio is "The Tower of Babel" embroidered on linen after a painting by Pieter Bruegel. Also featured are embroideries based on the works of Samuel Morse, painter and inventor of the telegraph and the Morse code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lynne Cooke contributes an in depth introductory essay, "Elaine Reichek: Memos for the New Millennium." Reichek has also written a personal review of her work and philosophy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of this exhibition takes its name from the title of a short story by Frank O'Connor. The images deal with the turbulent political history of Ireland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners saw this exhibition, entitled "Pricked" and purchased two works by Andrea Dezso from the 48 embroidered cotton squares of the series "My Mother Claimed That..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The installation titled "When You See This" in the Projects room of MoMA consisted of twenty-five samplers designed and handmade by the artist. They refer to modernist or contemporary artists with thematic and rhythmic currents connecting the works.The sampler's educational value appeals to Reichek who selected alternative and disruptive text. Artists referred to include Andy Warhol, Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer and Jackson Pollock. Combined with quoted texts of Freud, Colette, Hawthorne, Darwin, Dickens and Maurice Saatchi, the work is a rich, heterogeneous and contradictory melange of historical and fictional subjects. The Sackners saw this exhibition at MOMA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book illustrates and describes 31 embroidered artworks by Reichek stitched between 1996 and 1999. David Frankel contributed and introductory essay and Reichek has written a descriptive text for for each of the illustrated works expaining her tecihniques and background information. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.