Where her Airlifted to Safety series addressed the desire for protection and the manufacturing of security, Susan Robb’s most recent work looks at the loss of security and the fall into dystopia where one is isolated from nature open to being battered and bruised by culture. This new series of work includes video in which nature is viewed as an isolated event; sampled sound pieces made from recordings of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, which abstract the very thing that should clarify; and an installation ominously called The Wall. Also included are large-scale photographs generated from The Wall that are lush landscapes even while they throb and pulsate like bruised skin. It’s not all as bleak as it could be, however; Robb’s wry humor points the viewer towards a means of escape and personal autonomy.

Susan Robb is a recipient of a Pollack-Krasner Award as well as a City of Seattle CityArts Projects Grant. Her work has been included in Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, a exhibition that travelled nationally and was organized by the Henry Art Gallery, as well as in exhibitions in Berlin, Tokyo, and Sweden and the Pacific Northwest. She was the recipient of The Stranger’s 2003 Genius Award in the visual artist category.