Susan Silas giving a walk through at her exhibition, "the self-portrait sessions," at CB1 Gallery.
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1 – 4 P.M.
CB1 GALLERY

An informal, casual, walk through and discussion about her exhibition, the self-portrait sessions.

Join Susan Silas at CB1 Gallery on Saturday, June 11 from 1 – 4 p.m. She will be discussing her exhibition with visitors and answer questions about the work in the exhibition and her overall body of work.

Ms. Silas’s works in the self-portrait sessions began as an exploration of privacy and what she refers to as self-intimacy, meaning the way in which we are different alone with ourselves than we are with others. At a time when privacy is disappearing and we are under constant surveillance both in the public realm and in our homes and on our computers, our notion of what privacy means is undergoing serious questioning and change.

Self-portraiture was explored by the artist in the late 70s and a few of those images resurfaced when her family home was sold and one b & w image from 1979 is included in the exhibition. Ms. Silas also began to cast her face in plaster in 1992. This project was picked up again in 2012 and the artist now casts her face yearly in the spring, keeping track of the changes in appearance from one year to the next. Five plasters have been cast in bronze and in beeswax for the exhibition ranging from the first cast made in 1992 up to the most recent in 2015.

Ms. Silas’s work has been featured in Anti-Utopias, Camera Austria, Fotómúvészet, Heist. Photography Collective, and Artnet magazine and reviewed in Hyperallergic, Artforum, Art in America, the Village Voice, and the New Yorker. Her occasional essays have been published in the New York Times, Theo Westenberger Estate, Exquisite Corpse, thirteen.org REEL 13, Frog, and Podium. She is a regular contributor to the online art magazine Hyperallergic and co-editor of the artblog MOMMY. Ms. Silas has been interviewed on the radio by MsRepresent: Behind the Face, a Fierce Woman, at Rabble magazine, Museum of Non Visible Art at Yale University Radio, ArtonAir. org., and the BBC. She has been awarded residential fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, VCCA, Ucross Foundation, New Space Arts Foundation in Vietnam and the National Parks Service at Everglades National Park. Ms. Silas received her BA in History at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and her MFA in Fine Art at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

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