Susan Joy Share

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Susan Joy Share
Born
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew York State College of Ceramics
Known for
  • Book art
  • performance art

Susan Joy Share is an American book artist [1] and performance artist, born in Syracuse, New York, who worked in New York City as an artist and conservator for more than twenty years before moving her studio to Anchorage, Alaska. [2] She is known for her inventive moveable and morphing book art, architectonic paper structures, and wearable books used in her performances. [3] [2] In the late 1970s, she was part of the CETA-funded Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project in New York City.

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Book art and performances

Susan Share has a playful, inventive way with books. Her performance at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida exemplifies her virtuosic creativity in the field of book art. [4] [5] In the early 1990s she performed, aided by a small troupe of assistant actors and dancers, before a large ballroom audience of book art enthusiasts at the 1st National Book Art Festival and Convention held at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. In 2015 her art was featured once again at the Center for Book Arts. [1] [6] In 2016 in Anchorage, Alaska, she was part of an ursine-themed exhibition at the International conference and art show Parade of Bears. [7] Susan Share often works with non-profits such as New York's Central Booking, a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, selling her books in support of the organization. [8] In 2018 her exhibition InFormal Nature was shown at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska. [9]

Education and training

She studied ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, home of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture. [10] She has maintained her interest in three-dimensional and sculptural forms such as the paper engineering of Jacob's ladders, chambered boxes, accordion books, origami, and pop-up books. Her 1999 coptic-bound book Dwarf Spruce with porcelain clay covers shows a continuing interest in using many varying mediums in creating her book art objects. She often works in collaboration with other artists, Paul R. Stang for example. [11]

Book conservation and restoration

Living in New York City for more than 20 years, Susan Joy Share worked as an artist as well as a book conservator and restorer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. [12]

Awards, collections and public recognition

Her art is in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, [13] the Anchorage Museum of Rasmuson Center, The Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University Library, [14] the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. [2]

Teaching

Currently teaching at the University of Alaska Anchorage, she has also taught at Penland School of Crafts, [15] Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, The Center for Book Arts, [12] The Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University Library, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper (Illinois), and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. [2] In 2007 she returned to the Center for Book Arts as a Sally Bishop Faculty Fellow to teach a master class, lecture, and present an exhibition of her art. [12] Her 2007 slide talk and lecture at Syracuse University was videotaped and may be viewed on YouTube. [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Redux | 2015 Exhibitions | The Center for Book Arts" . Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Susan Joy Share". Anchorage Museum. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Share, Susan J. (1 January 2007). "Basically Books: The Artwork of Susan Joy Share". Presentations. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Ant, Fire (17 October 2013). "Susan Joy Share: Performance Book Art at FAU" . Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Ant, Fire (17 October 2013). "Susan Joy Share: Performance Book Art at FAU". Palm Beach, Florida: Broward New Times. Retrieved 7 September 2016. Susan Joy Share likes to play dress-up with paper. Onstage, to varied musical accompaniment, she drapes book-like constructions over and around her body like a tutu, then a bandolier, then a head wrap and a prayer shawl; she spreads them across the floor or fans origami slinkies through the air, the paper pieces whooshing and clicking as she dances and puts them through their paces. Boxes within boxes unfold and morph into architectures and landscapes of dazzling colors. This is her Animated Library.
  6. ↑ "Susan Joy Share -". Center for Book Arts. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "International conference, art show and 'Parade of Bears' coming to Anchorage this month". Alaska Dispatch News. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Susan Share – CENTRAL BOOKING". centralbookingnyc.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "Current Exhibitions". International Gallery of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "About Susan | Susan Joy Share". susanjoyshare.com. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  11. ↑ Alstrom, Eric. "Best of the Best: Susan Joy Share". guildofbookworkers.org. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  12. 1 2 3 "Susan Joy Share - The Center for Book Arts". 31 March 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  13. ↑ Wasserman, Krystyna; Niffenegger, Audrey; Drucker, Johanna (2007). The Book as Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN   9781568986098.
  14. ↑ "Jaffe Center for Book Arts". www.library.fau.edu. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  15. ↑ "Penland Summer Session 7 Workshops". penland.org. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  16. ↑ Share, Susan Joy (19 December 2012). "Basically Books: The Artwork of Susan Joy Share". YouTube . Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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