Sue Huggins Leopard
Rochester, New York

Sue Huggins Leopard is a book artist, printmaker, and letterpress printer. She runs her studio and press, Leopard Studio Editions, in Rochester, NY. She specializes in small editions, unique books and book objects, and varied works using her own prints. Recent work from Leopard Studio Editions includes Thirteen Moments, a book of 13 etchings inspired by reading Proust, and a broadside commission to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Her work is held in private and public collections including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and The Carey Library at RIT, among others.

Invisible Distance, 2012

My five stanza poem, Invisible Distance, begins: I am snowbound today / Waiting for a visible horizon / To appear from the great / Vaporous Circle. The book is in praise of artists. Those who start off in a cloud of unknowing, have faith that there is a horizon to reach for and go forward to meet it. The translucent materials, an increasing use of color as the pages advance, the Japanese binding and the symbolic glove allude to this optimism and fragility. There is only the hand of the artist- touching.

Dimensions: 6 x 11 inches, 15.25 x 28 centimeters

Frosted plexiglass, letterpress printed on paper by Tryst Press Paper Mill, pastel on drafting vellum,Unryu paper, Moriki paper and a glove.