Susan Borowitz - A Solo Exhibition
May 3 - June 3, 2024
The series “Locked-In” explores the phenomenon of feeling stuck and the accompanying sense of failure to control the forces that seem to dictate our lives. Using metaphor and imagery that suggest the inability to move on, the series evokes the absence of agency and a perceived futility of each waking day. The choice to use self-portraiture reflects not only a personal journey with clinical depression, but also a common experience of women who feel consciously aware of what they should pursue or speak up about, but feel impotent in the face of a dominant power: unequal relationships, demons residing in the subconscious, societal expectations and especially the disappearance of relevancy with encroaching age.
Straphanger (2018) 40" x 26" or 30" x 19.5" ©Susan Borowitz
Trip (2017) 40" x 30" or 30" x 19.5" ©Susan Borowitz
No Vacancy (2018) 30" x 40" or 20" x 30" ©Susan Borowitz
Stalled (2017) 40" x 31" or 30" x 20" ©Susan Borowitz
Delayed (2019) 40" x 27" or 30" x 20" ©Susan Borowitz
Terminus (2018) 40" x 28" or 30" x 21" ©Susan Borowitz
Bottomless Cup (2019) 40" x 27" or 30" x 20.5" ©Susan Borowitz
Blind (2020) 40" x 27" or 30" x 20" ©Susan Borowitz
Curtain (2018) 40" x 26" or 30" x 19.5" ©Susan Borowitz
On Hold (2022) 29.5" x 40" or 22" x 30" ©Susan Borowitz
Sandtrap (2021) 40" x 24" or 30" x 18" ©Susan Borowitz
Forfeit (2022) 40" x 27" or 30" x 20" ©Susan Borowitz
Buried (2023) 40" x 30" or 30" x 22.5" ©Susan Borowitz
Mirage (2020) 40" x 27" or 30" x 20" ©Susan Borowitz
Cycling (2017) 40" x 28" or 30" x 22.5" ©Susan Borowitz
Deep End (2018) 40" x 25" or 30" x 19" ©Susan Borowitz
On the Hook (2019) 40" x 26" or 30" x 19.5" ©Susan Borowitz
Marooned (2018) 40" x 27" or 30" x 21" ©Susan Borowitz
Routine (2019) 26" x 40" or 20" x 30" ©Susan Borowitz
High and Dry (2020) 40" x 29" or 30" x 21.5" ©Susan Borowitz
All images are from the series "Locked-In."
All images are archival giclee prints, and are available for sale.
©Susan Borowitz
After a successful career writing for American sitcoms, including creating the international hit show “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” Susan Borowitz discovered photography as a new way to tell stories in 2011. Currently, she practices Fine Art self-portraiture, expressing reflections of psychological journeys. Always viewing life through a comic lens, she has been described by Featureshoot as combining “the deadpan humor of Buster Keaton with the cultural critique of Cindy Sherman.” Her award-winning images have been exhibited in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, as well as US galleries. (New York, South Carolina, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey), and are in private collections in New York, Chicago, New Jersey, Tennessee and California.
Terminus (2018), 40" x 28" or 30" x 21" ©Susan Borowitz