"Susan Wides invites us to come alive to vision as a kind of inventiveness, an integrative faculty that, moment by moment, connects us to our surroundings and, ultimately, to one another."
Carter Ratcliff
Susan Wides: Seeing Seen

AN INSTALLATION Photographs, Painting, Architecture, Nature at 'T' Space Rhinebeck. June 1 - September 1, 2025

MUSEUM of FINE ARTS HOUSTON: Color into Light 2025.
Works from the Permanent Collection 
Susan Wides, September 3, 2016 11:02:10, 2017 

VOICE OF SILENCE Solo exhibition at Private Public Gallery. September 28 - November 2, 2024. Hudson, NY.

CHRONOGRAM Voice of Silence: Photography by Susan Wides at Private Public Gallery in Hudson, October 9, 2024. By Taliesin Thomas

UPSTATE DIARY Susan Wides: Voice of Silence. Private Public Gallery Hudson, NY October 2, 2024. By David Ebony

THE HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM: Rivers Flow | Artists Connect. February 2 – September 1, 2024. Yonkers, NY.
Curated by Jennifer McGregor and Laura Vookles

To view more images from a body of work, please contact the studio.

"this:seasons" unfolds where light, space, humans, and nature converge. Made on-site in single exposures, these photographs use variations in focal depth to alter ways of seeing and open questions of being. The series reflects on cycles of change and temporality—how perception dissolves and reforms, revealing vitality within the passage of time.

Created along tributaries of the Hudson River in the Catskill Mountain cloves, the images evoke impermanence, transformation, and spiritual presence through luminous color and abstraction. They call attention to the viewpoints of plants, wind, and water, echoing the flux of lived experience.

Each photograph holds intricate internal relationships of light, color, and motion, while new resonances emerge when the works are seen together. As Willem de Kooning described painting as a “slipping glimpse,” these photographs extend that idea—multiple, shifting moments held in balance, offering layered visions of renewal and new perspectives.
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"Confronting digital dehumanization along with ecological loss, Wides weaves together fragmentary encounters through her lens, generating Edenic visions in which the "machine in the garden" is us."
Hearne Pardee, The Brooklyn Rail