By The Grace Of God by Susan Worsham
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Young Sharpshooter

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Girl In Window, Syracuse, NY

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Woman In Shed, Syracuse, NY

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Used Car Lot Holy Bible

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Where A Diamond Was

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Elijah Gowin's Wedding Ring

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Dollar General, Diamond Ave, PA

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Untitled

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Destiny, Grandmother's Roses, VA

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Young American Bittersweet

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Untitled

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Pickled Watermelon Rind

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Bibles Found On Front Porch, VA

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Destiny, VA

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Cotton Candy Tree Under Highway, VA

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Wild Plums, VA

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Marine, Hotel Near Airport, Richmond, VA

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Family, Fourth Of July, Syracuse, NY

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Casket Storage, VA

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Plastic Covered Chair

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Golden Silver

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Golden Plums And Milk Glass

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Growing up in Virginia, my childhood field trips were to cigarette factories and civil war battlegrounds, with a brown bag lunch in tow. As a young girl I could often be found holding a dixie cup full of Kool-Aid powder, with a few drops of water, making a sweet sugary paste for finger dipping. My childhood travels were spent wandering different neighborhoods on my Schwinn, and knocking on strangers' doors with those same sticky fingers. I can remember one such house, where I knocked on the door to ask if I could jump on the trampoline in the front yard. It was the Gibson Girls' trampoline, the descendants of Charles Dana Gibson, the famous illustrator. He drew the ideal woman of the early 1900's, coined the Gibson Girl. I became a constant bouncing fixture on their lawn.

Kudzu is now making it's way over my childhood home, covering the past like a blanket, and putting it to rest, as I look for the intimacy of "home" in other places. Following a southern road with the slow pace of a funeral march, this series takes me beyond the backyards and trails of my youth. It deals with the hospitality of strangers, and hits on a feeling that I have sometimes when taking portraits. The feeling that I was supposed to meet a particular person, or turn down a certain road. The title is taken from the old saying "American By Birth, Southern By The Grace Of God". The images are made up of the places, and characters, that I believe, I have found through a sort of divine intervention. They are strangers, that invite me into their homes, to sit awhile and hear their stories. Characters that are real, and not imagined by the literary greats of the south.

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Susan Worsham  was born in Richmond Virginia. She took her first photography class while studying graphic design in college.  In 2009 Susan was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize For Photography, and her book ” Some Fox Trails In Virginia” won first runner up in the fine art category of  the Blurb Photography Book Now International Competition. In 2010 Susan was awarded the first TMC / Kodak Film Grant, and was an artist in residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York. Her work has been shown at the Corcoran Museum during FotoWeek D.C, LOOK3 Festival Of The Photograph, The Lishui Photo Festival in China, and most recently at the Danville Museum in Virginia. Susan was named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers To Watch in 2011, and was included in Photolucida's Critcal Mass Top 50.

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www.susanworshamphotography.com

s.worsham@comcast.net

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

LOOK3 Festival Of The Photograph, featured artist

Nine Visions, Danville Museum, Virginia

American Life, Lishui Photography Festival, China

100 Portraits, New York Photo Festival

100 Portraits, Australian Centre For Photography

PDN's 30 2011: PDN's choice of photographers to watch, Ring Cube Gallery,Tokyo, Japan

2010

Virginia Celebrates Women In The Arts, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol Va.,

Emerging Photographers Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York

Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship Group Show

Project Basho Onward 10, juror, Debbie Fleming Caffery

Sky Was Yellow Sun Was Blue, Russell Projects, Richmond, Va,

Red, The Center For Fine Art Photography, Colorado

Art Chicago, Dean Jensen Gallery

Portrait As Allegory, Umbrage Gallery, New, York

Southern Gothic, Dean Jensen Gallery

Portrait Revealed, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco

The Appalachian Photographer's Project Inaugural Exhibition, Reece Museum, Tennessee

100 Portraits/ 100 Photographers, FotoWeek D.C., Corcoran Museum

2009

Forever Hold Your Peace, New Orleans Photo Alliance, juror, Sylvia Plachy

TPS 18: The International Competition, traveling exhibit

Nymphoto Presents, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York

12 12 Gallery, National Juried Photography Exhibition, selected by Julian Cox

Big Bangs Small Bucks 2, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Awards And Honors

Photographic Center Northwest, 13th Members Juried Show, 2nd place, 2008

Santa Fe Prize For Photography Nomination, 2009

Santa Fe Project Competition, Top 10 percentile, 2009

Review Santa Fe participant, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2009

Texas Photographic Society, TPS 18: The International Competition: first place, 2009

Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist, (2009)

Blurb Photography Book Now, International Competition, First Runner Up, Fine Art Category,

Light Work Artist in Residence 2010

Too Much Chocolate / Kodak Film Grant

LOOKbetween, LOOK3 Festival Of The Photograph, Charlottesville, Virginia

Julia Margaret Cameron Award , runner up 2010

The Appalachian Photographers Project

Baum Award nomination 2010

Photo District News “PDN 30” Top 30 emerging photographers, 2011

Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers, 2011

Oxford American “100 Under 100, The New Superstars Of Southern Art”

Publications

Contact Sheet, The Light Work Annual 2011 forward written by Elijah Gowin

VQR Virginia Quarterly Review winter issue, 2010

 

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