2017 / Solo Shows

In Your Face: June 7 – July 1, 2017

Solo Show
Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC, 6/7 – 7/1/2017.
Reception: Tuesday, June 6, 6 – 8 pm.

In Your Face #02331 Susan Bowen
 
Gallery-wide show on the theme of the New York City character. My show, ‘In Your Face’, is 15 images shot with me walking nearly head-on into my subjects as they approach me. Find me in the upstairs left-hand gallery.

Also exhibiting are Norman Borden, Neil Lawner, Carol Julien, and Anthony Almeida… Come join us for this fun show.

Artist Statement: “The energy of the city, the density of crowds, is what inspires my various ‘people walking’ photographs. For this series, I am in motion as well as my subjects. I am as much as I dare walking head-on into my subjects as they approach me. I use a normal or slightly wide-angle lens, so I am only several feet away from my subjects at the “moment of impact”. For some reason I find this exhilarating.

It is no accident that I mostly shoot these pictures in Times Square or on Canal Street… as these are among the most pedestrian dense areas of the city. Crossing intersections is the most fruitful, as people are (rightfully) focusing on getting to the other side and maybe not so focused on their cell phones (or on the strange woman coming towards them). I am responding to people as moving shapes, as abstractions. I may be capturing the liveliness of humanity, but I do not want any picture to be “about the person”. I want my people to be anonymous and to represent us all. So if anyone were to stop me, I’d explain that the picture I just took of them really isn’t about them at all.”


 
Susan Bowen
Photo by Norman Borden
 
Susan Bowen
 
Susan Bowen

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May 25, 2017
2017 / Group Shows

Street Photography and the Urban Scene
May 20 – June 18, 2017

Davis Orton Gallery, 114 Warren St., Hudson, NY. 5/20 – 6/18/2017.
Reception: Saturday, May 20, 5 – 7 pm.

Four-person show; I’m one of the two Showcase exhibitors. Richard Sandler, William Hellermann, Susan Bowen, and Peter Donahoe. I am exhibiting 12 pieces from the New York Walking series.

Davis Orton Gallery is a charming gallery in the artsy small town of Hudson in upstate New York.

From my statement: “This group of images were shot at busy street corners in New York City, as I like to record the swirl of activity around me. The vantage point is low; I am sitting on the ground with a small tripod and rapidly capturing people as they walk by.”

Davis Orton

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May 20 – June 18, 2017
May 7, 2017
2017 / Group Shows

Affordable Photography Fair: May 19 – 22, 2017

Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC, 212-226-8571, 5/19-5/22/2017.
Reception: Friday, May 19, 6 – 8 pm.

I will be participating in Soho Photo’s fourth Affordable Photography Fair, Friday May 19 – Monday May 22, 2017.

All prints in the bins at the rear of the gallery will be priced at $100 each (with sizes up to 16×20). Prints will be matted.

Included are pictures from my “New York Walking” series and a selection of my “Holgarama” prints.

Hours for the Fair are:
Friday: 1pm – 8pm
Saturday: 1pm – 6pm
Sunday: 1pm – 6pm
Monday: 1pm – 6pm

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May 6, 2017
2017 / Group Shows

Street Photography: January 7 – 20, 2017

Blank Wall Gallery, 55 Fokionos Negri St., Athens, Greece, 1/7 – 1/20/2017.
Reception: January 7, 6 – 8 pm.


 
I am happy to announce that I will be included in a Blank Wall Gallery exhibition of Street Photography, in Athens Greece.

New York Walking #54985 will be in the exhibition and New York Walking #13038 will be included in the catalog.

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December 18, 2016
2016 / Group Shows

Art Slope 2016 – PSWT Group Show
Sept. 17 – 25, 2016

PSWT (Park Slope/Windsor Terrace Artists) will have a group show as part of a new art event in Park Slope, Brooklyn, called “Art Slope”. The PSWT exhibit is at 575 Fifth Ave, between 15th & 16th St, Brooklyn.

Check the image below for the hours the show will be open. And click on the “Art Slope” link above for more info on the festival; there will be a lot of art displays and events throughout the neighborhood.

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Sept. 17 – 25, 2016
September 17, 2016
2016 / Group Shows

Master Class with Bruce Gilden: Sept. 13 – 16, 2016

I had fun this month attending an Akademie workshop held at the Leica Store in Mayfair London, from Sept 13 – 16, with Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden.

It was an inspiring and entertaining few days with Bruce. Stay tuned for more of my “Walking Pictures”, this time set on Oxford Street, London. Thanks for a fun time Leica and Mr. Gilden.

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September 13, 2016