SUSAN MOSS was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1944. She graduated from the University of Nevada with Honors in Art and Psychology, She then received a Master’s grant in psychology, She established a Suicide Prevention Call-In Center with Dr. James B, Nichols in 1967 which is still in operation today. After teaching art for one year at Cerra Cosa College in China Lake, Ca., she entered Otis Art Institute doing graduate work in painting and printmaking for three years.Moss established her own Art Studio in 1971 and began showing her large spray paintings in 1973 at Gallery 707 on La Cienega and a group show at the Brand Library Art Center with Martha Alf, Gloria Kisch, Gwen Murrell, Diana Hobson, and Virginia Gray, establishing life-long friendships with these women artists. Both shows were reviewed by the “L.A. Times.”New York called in 1977 with her first show at David Findlay Gallery on Madison Avenue. The show of early Rhoplex paintings and early Earthslide drawings sold out, except for one painting. After this she created the “Black Forest” Series which she painted for her grandparents, Edith and Richard Hecht who died of starvation and typhus in the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen two weeks before the camp was liberated by British troops. The series was shown in 1979 at Lonny Gans Gallery in Nicholas Wilder’s gallery space when he decamped for New York. The show was a sensation, garnering reviews in arts magazine by David S. Rubin. Robert A. Rowan who had become a patron of this series collected several of the paintings. “House and Garden” magazine featured “Black Forest XII” in Frank Yablans Beverly Hills home next to a Picasso. Since then “Black Forest VIII” was included in the Getty’s book, “L. A. Rising” by Lynn Kienholz and Yale University Press “Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.”In 1980 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gave her a show in their new Artist’s Gallery in Fort Mason, the start of a 31- year relationship of showing, renting, and selling her Art. That year she also had a show of 30 crayon drawings at Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York.Moss switched her painting medium to oil in 1980 but continued her Earthslide drawings. Moss has now 50 painting years under her belt, her collectors now number 557 including five Museums: LACMA, Skirball, Laguna Art Museum, Buck Collection of California Art at UC Irvine. and the Lilley Museum at the University of Nevada.Recent shows include galleries in Florida and Tuscany, Italy.Susan Moss is also an author with four published books in several languages.