Susan Doheny Exhibit

Photographs by Susan Doheny are on display in the library for the Spring 2007 semester. Doheny has been a part-time faculty member in Visual & Media Arts.

Artist's Statement

The photographs presented here are predominantly from the Frame Series. The frame within a frame references the illusory and fugitive aspects of time and our desire to create a relic of transient moments. The landscape lends itself to a dramatic backdrop, whether amongst the tangled trees of the forest, or a cliff overlooking the sea. The work with frames and landscapes has infiltrated my portraiture as well.

Within the Frame Series are two distinct subgroups. One of which is the Winter Diary: Voice of Snow & Floating Lessons. Here each image is descriptive and acts as a chain of signifiers to a larger narrative. The other subgroup is In Transit, which is an abbreviation for the longer title, Journey to the North Country for the Observation of Venus in Transit. Here the frames are an index for liminal spaces, or what Roland Barthes and my students unknowingly pointed out as an interfugio. The images oscillate between an interior and exterior landscape.

[Photograph Shown: Sarah as Anna Karina I, Ink Jet Print]