SUSAN WORSHAM
Over the past nine years, Susan Worsham has let curiosity and a sense of nostalgia guide her, traveling quiet roads, to warmly lit places, engaging with people she meets along the way. Her portraits illustrate collaborative reflections of fleeting moments shared between strangers. Images of backyards, shrouded by overgrowth, lush with vivid color are rich with a deeper truth. Dated facades, blanketed by dust, are each a chronicle of time’s passage. Worsham’s work interweaves personal narrative and metaphor in a stunningly beautiful look at death, family, childhood–the place we come from, and the place we go for comfort: story. Many of her images serve as metaphor for her own life experiences
In 2012, Worsham received the Theresa Pollak Prize for Photography and was named one of Oxford American’s “New Superstars of Southern Art”. She has been artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York and nominee of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography.
Her work is held in private collections and has been exhibited at Light Work, Danville Museum of Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art during FotoWeek DC, Photographic Center Northwest, and Dean Jensen Gallery.
featured in:
coming down to earth | 2022
by the grace of god | 2017
bittersweet on bostwick lane | 2013
GALLERY INVENTORY
Skin of Man with Perspiratory Glands, 2017. Archival Pigment Print, 19.5 x 41.5 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Section of Trumpet Flower, 2017. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 30 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Light on Walnut, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 40 inches. Edition 1 of 7
Diospyros virginiana, (Virginia Sugar-plum), 2014. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 32 x 40 inches and 40 x 50 inches.
Black Walnut Bride, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 40 inches. Edition 2 of 7
Blood Stained Mouth, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Margaret with Giant Camellia Japonica, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 50 x 40 inches. Edition 1 of 3
Foxes on Azaleas. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 20 x 25 inches and 32 x 40 inches.
Icing Fingers, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 20 x 15 inches and 32 x 40 inches
Golden Plums and Milk Glass, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 40 inches. Edition 1 of 7
The Parrot Room, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 2 of 10
Funeral Home Pencils, Gum Spring, VA, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Maude and the Neighbor's Dog Through Section of Child's Liver, Sumner MS, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Destiny, Grandmother's Roses, VA, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 2 of 10
Keith's Sons, 2008. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Shoe Repair Shop, Greenwood, MS, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 2 of 10
Light in Cupboard, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Destiny, VA, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Woman Delivering Wedding Gifts, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Light Through Embalming Fluid. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Communion, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Mom and Russ, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Max with Papaya, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 20 x 25 inches and 32 x 40 inches.
Persimmon Grave, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 40 inches. Edition 3 of 7
Two Towels, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 2 of 10
Marine, Hotel Near Airport, Richmond, VA, 2009. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 20 x 25 inches and 32 x 40 inches.
Plum Mouth. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 4 of 10
Blood Film, 2017. Archival Pigment Print, 25 x 20 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Margaret with Hummingbird Vine, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 3 of 10
Pokeweed and Sasanqua, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 50 inches. Edition 2 of 3
Lynn with Red Towel, 2009. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 3 of 10
Bottled Light, William Eggleston's Childhood Home, Sumner, MS, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 25 x 20 inches. Edition 5 of 10
The Piano Man's Store, MS, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches> Edition 1 of 10
Family, Fourth of July, Syracuse, NY, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Georgia, The Day After the Family Dog Died, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Apricot Yard. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Snakes on My Childhood Bed, 2007. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Hearse in My Childhood Driveway, 2009 Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 40 inches. Edition 1 of 7
Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 50 inches. Edition 1 of 3
Lamp with Three Bulbs, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 2 of 10
Girl with Cat, VA, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 40 inches. Edition 5 of 7
Tru-Ade, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 5 of 10
Margaret's Azalea's through Section of Cat's Esophagus, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 25 x 20 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Night Wing Moth, 2017. Archival Pigment Print, 19.5 x 41.5 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Pollen Knife, (Margaret with Collected Pollen from my Mother's Camellia), 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Best Friends with Dixie Cups, 2017. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 20 x 15 inches and 32 x 40 inches.
Bruised Landscape, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Mosquito Bites. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 20 x 25 inches and 32 x 40 inches.
The Last Jar of Crabapple Jelly that Harrison Ate From Before He Died. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 25 inches. Edition 2 of 10
Georgia with Firethorn, 2019-2020. Archival Pigment Print
Diospyros virginiana (Virginia Possumwood), 2014. Archival Pigment Print, Available at 32 x 40 inches and 40 x 50 inches. Edition 1 of 3
Cancer Mouth, 2017. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 30 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Blood of Frog, 2017. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 30 inches. Edition 1 of 10