Suzanne Moore with Jessica Spring
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College’s 112th Annual Exhibition
Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women
Jessica Spring with Suzanne Moore, Process prints for Zero: Cypher of Infinity, 2009, 13 fold-out process prints for the book, digital copies of the original work; housed in a cave paper folder placed in a cloth-wrapped clamshell with applied title on the spine, folded folios: 10 ⅞ x 14 ¾ in.; folder: 11 ¼ x 15 x ¾ in.; clamshell: 11 ⅞ x 15 ¾ x 1 ¼ in. Courtesy of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Collection
Jessica Spring with Suzanne Moore, Zero: Cypher of Infinity, 2014, drum leaf binding and a pamphlet sewn signature in a cave paper cover; hand-lettered pages with letterpress, metal and wood type; photopolymer plates; mixed media, silkscreen and hand coloring on paper; housed in a cloth wrapped clamshell with the title applied to the spine, book: 11 ¼ x 15 x ¾ in.; clamshell: 11 ⅞ x 15 ¾ x 1 ⅜ in. Courtesy of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Collection
BIOGRAPHY – Jessica Spring
BIOGRAPHY – Suzanne Moore
Suzanne Moore was born to a family of gifted inventor-engineers, and raised in post-Sputnik middle America, with aptitudes in math and science. She was channeled into those fields at an early age, leaping blindly, but happily to art with the encouragement of a generous and insightful professor. She layers painting, lettering, printmaking, and drawing to create contemporary manuscript books and limited edition books. Her deep research has led her to create book work presenting an array of subjects: Sequoyah’s extraordinary invention of the Cherokee writing system, the spirituality of gardening, Bob Dylan Song Lyrics, the multi-layered story of Scheherazade, and the many faces, the symbolism and the spirituality of the digit Zero. She is currently working on an edition exploring, reclaiming, and rescuing the Letter Q.
Suzanne weaves word and painted image with form, content and structure into spaces that invite the reader to engage, examine, and inquire. Her books blend abstract and representational imagery, rich color and surface treatments with textual content, and contemporary lettering and typography to create work that obscures the line between word and image, legibility and abstraction. Sky-diver, car hop, architectural renovator, art director, and –throughout her life – avid earth-builder and life as an innovative free-lance artist are passions she has pursued. She was one of two Americans on the Wales-based team creating contemporary interpretive illuminations for the Saint John’s Bible, commissioned for Saint John’s Abbey, in Minnesota.
Her work is shown widely, and it is collected privately and by institutions such as Wellesley College, the Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Washington, among others. Suzanne teaches about contemporary manuscript design, conceptual book design, and painting and collage.