Description
© 2023 First edition Softcover with Swiss binding
78 pages, 45 photographs
Photographs and afterward: Sue Michlovitz
Design concept and direction: Caleb Cain Marcus (Luminosity Lab)
Essayist and editor: Melanie McWhorter
Printing: Robstolk (Amsterdam, NL)
Water is a paradox, peaceful yet invigorating, both life-giving and life-threatening. My photographs in this fine press book embrace these contradictions. Water is a character, restorative and vital in all its forms. My background as a physical therapist and physiologist informs my artistic approach. Observing the anatomy of water, I am drawn to reflections, refractions, textures, and layers of light and color. In some of my more abstracted images, I often imagine a part or whole of a human figure, appearing from within the shadows and layers.
About Sue Michlovitz –
Sue Michlovitz is a visual artist working in photography, book arts, and mixed media. Exploring abstract forms to create her color photographs, her art shows scenes that may go unnoticed by others. Michlovitz is also a physical therapist (hand specialist), was a university professor, and a textbook author/editor. Her clinical practice, medical mission and community outreach volunteerism in Guatemala and on the Navajo Nation required astute observation skills of movement patterns and interpersonal interactions, skills that feed her artistic expression.
Michlovitz’s photographs have been shown at the State of the Art Gallery (Ithaca, NY), Camden Public Library (Camden, ME), Arts in the Barn at Cushing Historical Society (Cushing, ME), Cove Street Arts (Portland, ME), Photoville 2022 & 2023 (Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA) and Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, 2023. Her books have been displayed at the Michael Good Gallery (Rockport, ME) and the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (Portland, ME). Her handmade book Arts Muse was featured in the Griffin Museum of Photography virtual exhibit in Photography Book Initiative, Fall 2021.
She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA), where she is a member of the Education Committee. She is a member of the MidCoast Maine Book Arts collective.
Michlovitz earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Media Arts at Maine Media College, Rockport, ME and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Orthopedic Physical Therapy at MCP-Hahnemann University (now Drexel University), Philadelphia, PA.
She lives in Camden, ME.
Available as
1. Deluxe Edition. Book with 3 limited edition prints in a custom clamshell box) Limited Edition of 8 + 2 AP $500.00
2. Special Edition. Book with a limited edition (of 50) signed print $100.00
3. Book. $55.00
