[STILTED SCREEN]

[New York: The Artist, 1989].. Folding, multipanel screen, in three major components (35.5 x 16 x 9 cm folded). Enclosed in gilt decorated linen chemise and slipcase with side panels decorated with color paste-paper collages, with inserted multipanel folding hand-painted construction of corrugated and cloth to "fill" in the slipcase. A unique book object, signed and dated by the artist on the slipcase. The structure is constructed from bookboard, paper and cloth folding panels, which are supported by metal- reinforced stilts. Fashioned in sections allowing for different permutations of arrangement, the screen unfolds to a length of over 75 cm, and adjoined panels fold upward revealing collages that include photographs, photocopies and other materials. The whole is worked over with watercolor and acrylic. Following in some fashions the ways maps and plates fold out of books, the screen utilizes imagery from, among other sources, a catalogue of medieval costumes the artist rebound while working as a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum. Susan Share was born in Syracuse, New York, and received her BFA from the College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1977. She worked as an artist and conservator in New York City for 20 years before moving her studio to Anchorage, Alaska in 1997. Her artwork has been collected, exhibited and performed widely, including at the Anchorage Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert, and the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection. She was included in THE BOOK AS ART exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and represented in the lavish catalogue of same. THE BOOK AS ART, p. 64.