Tennille Shuster's artist's book and installations have been presented in solo and group shows throughout the United States, including the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, Fort Lauderdale; Center for Book Arts, New York; Utah Museum of Fine Arts; and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut. Her work has also been shown internationally at Knjizevni klub Booksa, Croatia; Hokkaido College of Art and Design, Japan; Massolit Books, Poland; and the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design, England. Shuster is the recipient of several awards, including the 2005 Florida Artists Book Prize. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including American Craft magazine and Time Out New York . Shuster earned her BFA at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and earned her MFA at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In addition to being a book artist, Shuster is also an educator and an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer.
Tennille Shuster was formally trained as a graphic designer, but studied and practiced to obtain a solid foundation of fine art skills. Book making serves as a satisfying combination of her artistic abilities, wherein she is able to draw on a variety of skills - as any given book requires. A single project may use many different techniques including screen-printing, watercolor painting, letterpress printing, weaving and computer design. Tennille finds it liberating to flow through the process of creating a book, and consider form and content to be dependent on one another in order to construct a book as a cohesive communication tool. Shuster's recent work investigates artist's books as a vehicle for self-expression within the field of graphic design. Her book forms focus on the documentation of personal experiences to singular events that have shaped her life. These book forms communicate events in her life to an audience, with no regard to commercial concerns. Her goal is to show how the form of artists' books elevates graphic design to a higher, less transient status than traditional commercial-based design through the use of personal content and the creation of limited editions, as opposed to mass-produced design that communicates a promotional message.
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