"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


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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I, Manahatta is an exploration of the perception of place at a transformative moment in New York City’s physical and cultural landscape (1997-2014)—from the late 90s building boom, to the paused constructions after 9/11 and the recession, and culminating in the city’s accelerating luxury homogenization.

The series documents not only the dramatic physical shifts in the cityscape, but the nuanced dimensions of how we, as spectators,
perceive and interact with the complex topography of our urban sphere on social, economic, and physical levels. It imagines the city landscape as an organic entity of complex and vibrant histories that reflect back a version of our selves. I was moved by this intimate dynamic and by our passionate desire to, as Baudelaire wrote, “be in our environment, in the heart of the multitude…in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.”