Susan Rivers
Defying darkness with subversive color and texture
My photographs and mixed media explore the contradictions of modern society; amid the tumult around us, we can ease our social and psychic wounds through art.
My mission is to create art through color, contrast, and texture to inspire subversive hope and harmony despite the discord of our unpredictable existence.
A lifetime of exploration and discovery
Susan Rivers is a former Wall Street Journal editor and corporate communicator who has lived and worked in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Born in New York, she earned a degree in photography at Trinity University, and won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to photo document rural villages in France, Ireland and Quebec.
She worked as a news writer and editor for 30 years, occasionally freelancing as a photographer and illustrator. She later shifted into corporate communications, serving at financial institutions in Boston and New York.
Her photographs and/or writing have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among other publications.
Since arriving at Richmond in 2019, she has exhibited her photographs and mixed media in New York, Rhode Island and Virginia, including the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Art Works, Artspace Gallery, the Boyd Realty Gallery, the FemLens online gallery, Montpelier Education and Arts Center, and the Virginia Beach Art Center.