Susan Bowen lives in New York City and is historically known for her overlapping multiple exposure panoramas, which she shot with a plastic camera. In 2008 Susan completed a 48’ public art mural for a school in New Haven, Connecticut, and the previous year she created four murals for the Department of Transportation in Minnesota. In 2007 she was profiled in Photo Techniques and Light Leaks magazines, published in Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, and received an award in the Pilsner Urquell International Lucie Awards. In 2006 and 2010 Susan had four images published in Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, a book by Michelle Bates. Her 24 solo shows have been in New York, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Reno, Dayton, San Marino, Lubbock, Georgia, and Tennessee. Susan's more current projects include a series on people walking and explorations of objects, spills, and other ephemeral things she finds on the street.
Red is my favorite color. The silver lining to the city installing dedicated bus lanes on my neighborhood bus route (and taking away my beloved just-around-the-corner bus stop... and LOTS of parking spaces)... is that they painted these lanes red. Granted not as vibrant a red as shown in these images, but a pretty good proximity. Most of these pictures are of their process of painting these lanes, and I've included a few other ground surfaces that share the color red.
These images are part of my broader ongoing series of things found on the ground.
Mexican Gate Doors
Doors in storefront gates, Mexico City 2023
