January 2013

The Usual Wilderness

Using systematic and chance explorations of the landscape, light and language, Susan Main examines the wildness of attention and perception through video, drawing and painting. Gathering seconds of light, opening the camera to one yard of ground, pairing the breath with a view of the horizon, her work draws simple boundaries in time and space as a way to orient under the elusive, shifting conditions of everyday natural phenomena, individual concentration and the limits of mediating tools. Presenting a landscape that fluctuates between containment and release, focus and dissolution, attachment and sacrifice, Main offers an everyday wilderness teetering on the threshold of perception.

Susan Main received an MFA in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MFA in Interactive Media and Digital Arts from the
University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her work has been exhibited
nationally and internationally including telematic collaborations with artists in Afghanistan. Main’s work is in numerous collections. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

View more of Main’s work at www.susanmain.net