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Moore, Suzanne, 1949-

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  • Existence: 19491216

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Whence did the Mystic...by William Massey / Moore, Suzanne., 1993

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Identifier: CC-06360-6477
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...
Dates: 1993

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