Biography for Author Audrey Niffenegger:

Bibliography and Biography of Audrey Niffenegger: In the modernist era of polymaths and meta-metas and high speed chaise loungers, Audrey Niffenegger has created an awesome little backwater esker, combining two of the slower and more meditative mediums into a body in motion: printmaking and writing, mediums with a slow velocity, perhaps, but stuffed with mass. Books used to be printed writing: perhaps one could say that she is a mellow reactionary. But that could be quietly dangerous. Born in 1963 in South Haven, Michigan, the Eastern Shores of Chicago, she continues to teach in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Niffenegger received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985 and her M.F.A. from Northwestern in 1991. Some of her other work as a visual artist printmaker is combined in some of her books as a kind of hand spun graphic novel. Whatever she works on it is guaranteed to stand out from the background, a "little off", perhaps, as they say, in France. There are excellent digitals of her printmaking work at printworkschicago.com, and more information direct from the source at audreyniffenegger.com. Her printed work makes great use of aquatints and layered darknesses, another form of minimalist details, much like her writing, which does well with moods and a kind of real life grittyness for place.