"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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“Wides’s photographs are fluid rather than static; her lens swings, tilts, and pans, giving the images a dynamism that they share with the city they capture—an ongoing act of imagination.”
— Christopher Bonanos, New York Magazine

These photographic works explore the perception of place at a transformative moment in the city's physical and cultural landscape. The pieces trace not only the city’s dramatic shifts in form but also the more subtle ways we experience its layered terrain—socially, economically, and physically. The city emerges as an organic body, alive with complex and vibrant histories that mirror our own. I was moved by this intimate dynamic and by our desire, as Baudelaire wrote, “to be in our environment, in the heart of the multitude…in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.”

The works speak in the language of the lens—light bending, color shifting, edges softening, focus drifting—to reflect how we perceive the urban landscape in motion. By allowing images to blur and then snap into clarity, I embrace the camera’s limits as a way of seeing. Shapes of light hover like bubbles, dissolving and reforming—both precise and fleeting—as the city moves between rhythm, vitality, and flow.