Susan King

Susan King grew up in the South in a family of storytellers; southern oral tradition and history, and writing about place often appear in her work. Her latest work, Redressing the Sixties, uses fabric and fashion to tell a personal history of the 1960s. It was produced with a grant from the Library Fellows at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and is the winner of their 2001 Library Fellows Award.

King is an artist and writer who started making books after she moved to Southern California in the 1970s to be part of the experimental Feminist Studio Workshop. She went on to become the studio director of the Women's Graphic Center at the Woman's Building. Her work is in major collections including the UCLA Library, the Getty Research Library, Bibliotheque National, The Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Chronicle Books recently published a trade edition of her book Treading the Maze: An Artist's Journey through Breast Cancer.

On Exhibit

Redressing the Sixties: What Artists Wore, Lessons à la mode
Los Angeles, 2001
Letterpress, drawings

I Spent the Summer in Paris
Los Angeles, 1984
UCLA Arts Library