Solo Show
Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 2/8 – 3/5/2023.
Reception: Thursday, February 9, 6 – 8 pm.
For the past few years I’ve been exclusively showing my work via Instagram and more recently the European (and better) equivalent called Vero True Social. I’ve shot and posted almost daily during these years and further refined my photographic eye. A Vero friend, Yvonne Gorman, describes my work this way: “[Susan] specializes in taking abstract snippets of urban life and can create something very interesting, even beautiful, out of everyday sights that most people would walk straight past! I love that and am secretly really pleased that I’ve found someone else who likes to take abstract photos of quirky things I might very well take a shot of too!”
Artist Statement: This exhibit is a selection of 20 images shot on my morning walks, primarily in the East Village where I live. They were originally posted on my Instagram feed, 2015 to the present. Most of my Instagram shots are of objects, spills, and other things found on the street. This selection are images are categorized by their graphic nature and round shape. They are all presented viewing straight down. I’ve paired them as having something in common with their partner. I’ve also presented them in groupings of 4, 2, and 3.
Most of the subjects in my various “looking down” series are ephemeral in nature… that what I am shooting will likely be gone or changed at any moment. I enjoy the element of chance in my work; I never know what I will find. To me few subjects are out of bounds; what might be considered trash to others is for me an opportunity for self-expression and the surprise of unexpected beauty.
