has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Recent Activities of and on Susan Bowen
About me
Susan Bowen (slbowen)
Although I have lived in suburbs, small towns, and have rural connections, the city is where my heart lies. Wherever I photograph, I see things from the perspective of an urbanite. I find it interesting how even in the country I seek out things industrial and man-made.
The urban experience to me is largely about motion. The intense pace and vitality of the city excites me; I like to shoot fast and furiously, to be totally immersed and to be swept up in, and along with, the tide of the moment. Either I am shooting people that are in motion or I myself am in movement around my subject. I will stalk my subjects, be they a swarm of gesturing humans or abstract shapes of color and light.
The long overlapping images are created by only partially advancing the film between exposures – the overlapping occurs in the film itself. It delights me how these mostly unplanned juxtapositions capture my experience of a particular time and place and at the same time have an identity all their own.
- Exhibitions
In 2007 Susan was profiled in Photo Techniques and Light Leaks magazines, published in Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, and won first place in SohoPhoto 2007 and a third place award in the Pilsner Urquell International Photography/Lucie 2007 Awards. In 2006 she was awarded public art projects in Minnesota and New Haven, CT, and she had four images published in Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity a book by Michelle Bates. Her thirteen solo/2-person shows have been in New York, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Reno, Dayton, San Marino, Lubbock, and Tennessee. Susan has been in over 100 group shows in the past six years, including ones at the Safe-T, Nelson Hancock, and Sideshow galleries in Brooklyn, the Photographic Center NW in Seattle, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO. She has been a finalist for public art projects in Brooklyn, Iowa, Tampa, Indianapolis, and Frisco, Texas.
