Scope and Contents

The catalogue is shaped like alphabetical file cards with each artist's name printed on the tabs. The exhibition was curated by Barbara Lazarus Metz and the catalogue was designed by Bill Drendel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Suzanne Moore is a printmaker, painter and lettering artist whose eclectic interests fuse in the diversity of her artists' books. Born to a family of gifted inventor-engineers and raised in post-Sputnik middle-America, her aptitudes in math and science channeled her into those areas at an early age. She made her way into the world of art at 20-something, and earned a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing in Wisconsin. Suzanne melds word and painted image with form, content and structure into spaces which invite the reader to engage, examine and inquire. Her books blend distinctive design, color use and surface treatments with textual content and contemporary lettering to create work that obscures the line between word and image, legibility and abstraction.The physical, sensual and architectural aspects of books and the musical/rhythmic, sequential, unfolding narratives of bookworks are a multi-dimensional parallel to the way imagery and letterforms move across surfaces. Moore...