"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

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The new significance of nature and the development of landscape painting coincided paradoxically with the relentless destruction of wilderness.
Barbara Novak
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875

When I made Near Catskill Creek [October 15, 2004], which depicts a car graveyard in the Catskill woods, I wasn’t aware Thomas Cole had painted Catskill Creek nearby in 1845. This coincidence inspired the series I, Kaaterskill, weaving a dialogue between an American wilderness idealized by mid-19th century painters and the degraded environment we live in today. When I showed this early work, I paired it with reproductions of the Hudson River School paintings, many made in the same vicinity.

This inquiry into the forces that animate a place is a through-line in much of my work. I’m inspired not only by the historic and cultural influences that vibrate in a setting, but how we gather up these bits of data to form an idea of a landscape—or as Merleau-Ponty writes of Cezanne, to depict “an object in the act of appearing, organizing itself before our eyes.” These words articulate my desire to capture the immersive act of beholding: through manipulations of light and space in my photographs, I seek to slow down the moment of observing so we can see deeply into the meaning of a landscape and contemplate where we are.