The Gritty Bible, by Printer-Maker Barry Moser

THE NEWS JOURNAL
By Marina Koren

"Adam and Eve"

PENNSYLVANIA - These are not the kind of depictions you'd find in your grandmother's Bible. The 15 images, on exhibit in "Barry Moser: Bookwright" at the Brandywine River Museum, offer an earthier view of the world during biblical times, not the exquisitely painted holier-than-thou religious works favored by many publishers. "He just goes out of his way to show the humanity of the Bible more than the kind of idealized vision we have," says Lee Wierenga, assistant curator at the Brandywine River Museum. "He embraces the grittiness, the humanness of life. He doesn't pull a punch -- he calls it how he sees it." Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Moser studied at Auburn University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and did post-graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [link]