Current art exhibit
Susan Lirakis has been making photographs since she was six years old, when she was given a camera. Although the camera in her hands has changed over the years, it has rarely left them. She uses vision to orient herself and to make sense in the world. Photographing has been a means of discovery, creation, and expression.
Susan explores how we create our worlds through what we see, interpret, remember. She maintains a daily practice of looking and questioning how we are in this world. How do we inhabit our bodies and move through space? How do we develop our voices? How do we draw breath into our lungs to make our next creation, to be inspired? How do we commit to life?
She explores these concerns with the act of photographing, making images, and celebrating our lives, our connections, our belonging, with this imagery. She does this with silver gelatin prints, archival pigment prints, gold and silver leafing and cyanotype prints. Her vision looks reverently at the so-called ordinary as treasured moments.
Susan’s work has been supported through the NH State Council of the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, the Clowes Foundation, and the McLaughlin Residency Fellowship.