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WONDER WINDOW
After the death of her artist husband, Art Paul, a man best known for having created the famous Playboy Bunny logo, the COVID pandemic intensified Suzanne Seed’s loneliness. To combat it, she focused on the outside world through her windows from her 75th floor Chicago apartment. “When the pandemic arrived, I became a hermit and felt like a prisoner. I started to really see what was out those windows, the ways the light played with the buildings, with the city. The buildings became like company, like neighbors.”
Suzanne began taking photos and posting them online. They were remarkably artful and eye-grabbing, even haunting. The result was a successful show at Evanston’s Noyes Cultural Arts Center titled “Wonder Window: How Memorializing My City from Three Blocks Above, and During the Pandemic, Transformed Me.” Seed has long been a photographer, as a student at Indiana University, Yale University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has won awards for her work, which have been published in Time, Life, Playboy, Mademoiselle, the Tribune, CBS, the Sun-Times and Daily News. She has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally and published two photo/interview books.
Education
B.A Indiana University: studied photography with Henry Holmes Smith. Junior year fellowship
to Yale Summer School of Music and Art where studied photography with Walter Rosenblum
MFA: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, focus on connecting Film/Photography/Generative
Systems. Final thesis at SAIC won Logan Award for New Writing on Photography and was
published by Boston University and as “Multiple Views” by the University of New Mexico Press.
Exhibited photography in galleries in USA, Europe. Among them, the Neikrug Gallery in NYC,
the Floating Foundation of Photography in NYC, and The Darkroom Gallery in Chicago.
Free-lance photography for Time, Life, Playboy, Mademoiselle, the Chicago Tribune, CBS and
others. Photo-illustrator for Chicago Sun-Times/Daily News for three years. Authored two
photo/interview books (“Saturday’s Child,” and “Fine Trades”) that won awards, such as
American Library Association Award. “Saturday’s Child” reprinted by Penguin.
Primary Current Projects:
1 “Wonder Window” (how connecting with my city during the pandemic from three blocks up
transformed me). Completed; has been exhibited at Noyes Gallery in the Chicago region.
2 “Everyday Awe and Inadvertent Angels” (how light transforms ordinary street scenes; this
project, like “Wonder Window,” explores awe but at ground level). Completed and being
prepped for printing.
3 “Tree Dance” (explores the extraordinary, surreal expressiveness of tree branches via
collaged shots of trees. Completed and being prepped for printing.
4 “Prairie Dragons” (an illustrated memoir on growing up amid the strange mix of wild nature
and heavy industry in Northern Indiana’s Calumet Region). Completed and being submitted to
book publishers.