Su Lund is a visual artist and bookmaker who creates assemblages combining painting, printmaking and sculpture in lavish detail. Her finely crafted pieces are multilayered, both literally and conceptually. Her fascination with ancient knowledge sometimes merges with an interest in Dada and surrealist art, as well as popular culture to create expressions bridging the past and the present. Trained as a bookbinder, Lund’s work combines conceptual art and traditional bookmaking techniques and pushes them in new directions.

Involved in the Book Arts movement since 1980, Lund’s first ten years of bookmaking were primarily devoted to creating fine designer bindings and elaborate unique books and boxes in “traditional” Book Art formats. Her last nineteen years of art making have been more experimental; combining archival structures with as many art processes as possible. “My challenge is to take a concept and transform it into a concrete object that transcends the categories of Book Arts or sculpture.”

Lund’s bookworks are featured online in Catalogue #36 by Joshua Heller Rare Books, Wash. DC and at Vamp & Tramp Booksellers. Her work has been shown recently in Santa Fe, NM, at N.Y. Center for Book Arts, The Torpedo Factory/Pyramid Atlantic galleries (DC) and the Athenaeum Arts Library in La Jolla, CA.

Su Lund earned a BFA (Fine Arts/Design) from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and MFA equivalent in Book Arts through international apprenticeships. Her works have been shown nationally in museums and galleries, and acquired for private and major collections including The Jack Ginsberg Collection in Johannesburg, South Africa, The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, FL, Denver University in CO, Lafayette College, Skillman Library in Easton, PA, University of Kentucky and the Avant Writing Collection, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University.

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