I LOVE SUSAN SILAS
by Charlie Finch



I first encountered the work of Susan Silas in 1995 when I sneaked onto the property of collector Richard Ekstract in the Hamptons to view one of her photographs through the window of his magnificent circular home. Shortly afterwards she sent me a postcard of one of her photographs, a small girl hilariously blowing water out of her mouth, mocking Bruce Nauman’s famous self-portrait.

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