Susan Schenk
Susan Schenk
Susan Joan Schenk has exhibited extensively, nationally and also internationally, in Asia, Europe and South America. She taught Art History, Photography and Studio Art for the University of Maryland’s Asian and European Divisions. She has worked for the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and as an assistant to the sculptor, Richard Serra. She was the first female police photographer to serve in the New York City Police Department’s Photographic Unit.
Schenk moved to Nebraska seven years ago. She has exhibited in national exhibitions at Cain Schulte Contemporary Art and MM Galleries in San Francisco and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and R & F Encaustic Gallery in New York. She is a signature member of the International Encaustic Artists and was part of the Diptych Project, which has traveled to Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine; Boston, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
This series of photographs is an amalgam of experiences. It strings together a range of memories while string to make sense of life through many traces. Fragments are the memory bank, my symbolic repertoire. The photographs are glimpses of and connections to passion, solitude, movement, love, loneliness, mortality, fantasy, compiling instances and moments or a more complete picture is like piecing together a puzzle. The triggered memories are portions of the truth, encapsulated pieces of time. I think we spend our entire lives looking for a defining moment that will put everything in perspective. It could be an emotion, place or event.
But I realize in truth that fragments are the summary of our struggle and journey. The composite is a metaphor for life.
