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 sees books as interactive spaces: portable places created to offer the "reader" new perspectives. Recent work has included singular bookworks (1) on the the concept, tumultuous history and the mystery of Zero and the Void, (2) a pair of large format manuscript books with monotype imgery presenting Bob Dylan song lyrics and (3) a primarily visual response to and interpretation of the seven movements of the Holst symphonic suite: The Planets.Suzanne's work is exhibited widely, and her books have been acquired for private and public collections in the U.S. and Europe. Among them are the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Library of Congress, and the rare book collections of Smith College, Wellesley College, Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Washington. She lectures and teaches in the US and abroad on contemporary manuscript design and techniques, conceptual thinking in book design, and on painting and collage techniques.She is one of three Americans on the team who created contemporary interpretive illuminations for the St. John's Bible, the Wales-based project lead by Donald Jackson. Commissioned by the Abbey at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, this is the first hand written and illuminated Bible created in 500 years. The seven-volume work is lettered and painted on vellum, a true 21st century illuminated Bible -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/5/archival_objects/891581 Accessed November 08, 2024.