This is the fourth piece of our multi-part blog installment featuring a photographic artist, and previous Light Work Artist-In-Residence. This week we hear from Susan Worsham. The statement that follows is Worsham’s answer to our questions, folded together into a series of captivating memories. I remember showing executive Director Jefferey Hoone and some of the […]

Susan Worsham’s exhibition Bittersweet/Bloodwork features audio recordings of Worsham and her older neighbor Margaret Daniel’s conversations about plants, life, and death. All together, the photographs and accompaniments in Bittersweet/Bloodwork speak of the poetry of childhood, nature, discovery, love, and loss. “I can remember one particular time when I visited Margaret,” says Worsham. “I looked out of […]

September 4 – October 12, 2012
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
Lecture: Thursday, September 13, 2pm
Reception: Thursday, September 13, 5-7pm

Contact Sheet 168: Susan Worsham
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Light Work (September 2012)
ISBN: 0-935445-80-3

Susan Worsham—Bittersweet/Bloodwork Exhibition Dates: September 4–October 19, 2012 Gallery Reception: September 13, 5–7 pm Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition Bittersweet/Bloodwork, featuring the works of Southern photographer Susan Worsham. The photographs were taken in and around Virginia, where her family has passed but the soil remains rich with memory and metaphor. All together, […]

Susan Worsham
Margaret's Rhubarb, 2008
Archival inkjet print, 8 x 10″ on 10 x 12″ paper
Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist

June 2010

Light Work would like to wish a hearty congratulations to our Light Work family members Susan Lipper, Arno Rafael Minkkinen & Stuart Rome on being named 2015 Guggenheim Fellows. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation’s annual Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability […]

  2012 The Light Work Gallery is renamed and dedicated as the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery. An endowment to support exhibitions in the Gallery is established by her son Jeffrey Hoone, Light Work’s executive director. Long time friend and supporter Robert B. Menschel also makes a substantial donation to the Ellis Gallery Endowment Fund. Vernon […]

Light Work invited Andy Adams, Editor of FlakPhoto, to curate our first ever online Benefit Auction through Paddle8. On occasion of the auction’s launch, we spoke with him about photography, supporting working artists, and his selection process. The auction runs from Nov. 25 – Dec. 10 and features a variety of limited-edition prints and signed photobooks. […]