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Susan Wides Explores NYC and Its Environs in Exhibition at Kim Foster Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Kim Foster Gallery presents Art & Entertainment, Susan Wides’ sixth solo show at the gallery. With this new work, Wides builds upon over ten years of exploring New York City and its environs through the facets of shift/tilt techniques. Whether it is the curving opulence of the Metropolitan Opera, or the dizzying colors at Times Square’s Toys R’ Us, Wides’ lens gives us a swooping tour of New York’s spaces for the public and privileged in works that are both recognizable and disorienting. In this new body of large-scale pigmented ink prints created in the first few months of 2010, Wides continues to explore the way physical phenomena are experienced by the senses and imagination through intuitive insight, states of awareness and visual thinking – manifestations that exist only in fleeting perception and which only her camera is capable of reproducing. Her photographs portray a cradled interiority of New Yo