Susan Myers Art

This framed infrared silver gelatin print of a treeline is the work of photographer Susan Myers, who experiments with the concept of pattern and frequency in her decision to focus not on the trees themselves, but on the parallel shadows they cast. The small 7.5 x 11.5 photograph is ready to hang in a white mat and black frame, equipped with a sturdy wire. About the artist: Susan Myers has loved photography since watching her first print develop in the darkrooms of SUNY Albany. Myers received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Fine Art from SUNY Albany in the early 80’s, and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography in the late 80’s from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Over the years, Myers has devoted herself to a wide range of subject matters and processes, from her graduate thesis - traditional black and white documentary work on schizophrenia - to nudes, landscape, and portrait work done as pinhole photography, Polaroid transfers, infrared, large format and color stills. Myers’s photography has appeared in numerous juried shows including the area’s Photo-Regionals and the Mohawk Hudson Regionals as well as the Mohawk Hudson Invitational. In addition to her artistic endeavors, Myers has worked as a commercial photographer, studio portrait photographer and as a photo educator. She has taught basic black and white darkroom techniques, color, non-silver processes and History of Photography at local colleges and high schools. Myers has juried numerous statewide and regional shows, and has acted as curator and/or coordinator for such notable shows as: Interpreting Landscape, (with the editor of Art in America); the 911 Show (with works from all over the country in many different artistic mediums); and Exposed, (with Anthony Montoya from Aperture). Myers was instrumental in reinvigorating the Photo-Regional, and help establish its current format which has thrived for the past dozen years. Myers is also an avid art collector, with works from the pages of photo history aw well...