Not In Your Face By Susan A. Barnett

In college I studied photojournalism. I received a B.A. from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, in Studio Art and Art History. I interned at the Cloisters, the Medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a photo archivist. With that experience I landed a job at Perls Galleries on Madison Avenue where I worked for fifteen years as Associate Director. I handled Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Leger and Matisse and prepared exhibitions and catalogues for Alexander Calder.
I was included in the "Big Picture" exhibition at P.S.1. My photographs were shown at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. I went back to school to study Graphic Design and computer based photography (early Photoshop) at the School of Visual Arts, New York where I studied with Milton Glaser and Paul Davis.
From 1996, in my series "After Neon" I photographed the vanishing world of neon lights in the streets of Manhattan and the boroughs. That series has earned me finalists spots at IPA, Photographers Forum and the The Gallery of Art & Design. I exhibited this work at Soho Photo in Tribeca, Capital One Corporate Gallery, Richmond VA, Artspace, Richmond VA and Kkien Atlier, Milan, Italy.