Boyd Realty Group:
Susan T Rivers and Dana Frostick
Artspace continues its Satellite exhibition series at Boyd Realty Group, our neighbor in the Stratford Hills Shopping, with an exhibition featuring the work of Susan T Rivers and Dana Frostick.
An opening reception will coincide with Artspace's February-March exhibitions opening from 6-9 p.m.
February 23 - March 16, 2024
Opening Reception:
6:00-9:00 p.m., February 23, 2024
Artspace Satellite Exhibition at Boyd Realty Group
6784 Forest Hill Ave, Richmond, VA 23225
Hours:
10-6 Tuesday-Friday
11-4 on Saturday
By appointment on Sunday and Monday
Call: 804-562-1978 | Email: office@boydrealtygroup.com
Artwork details shown by:
Susan T Rivers (L) and Dana Frostick (R)
Susan T Rivers / Light gets in
Light gets in
You can add up the parts
You won't have the sum
You can strike up the march
There is no drum
Every heart
Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
From “Anthem” by Leonard Cohen
Biography
Susan T. Rivers is a photographer and mixed media artist based in Richmond. Previously, she lived and worked in New York, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East as a journalist.
After earning a degree in photography at Trinity University in Washington, D.C., she pursued a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to photo document rural villages in France, Ireland and Quebec.
Deeply affected by her multicultural travel and distressed by the violence of ethnic cleansing, she creates colorful and complex mixed media work to convey the contradictions of pain and healing of our shared humanity.
IG: @susantrivers
Susan T Rivers, "Pond Light," painted photograph.
Dana Frostick / Singularities
Statement
I am preoccupied with the idea of individuality. Other than for the purposes of documentation, I have no desire to reproduce my artwork for mass consumption. The selection of my artwork featured here includes paintings and monoprints from the past decade or so, each piece a unique and singular creation. They are all separate individuals to me and the idea of copying them seems unnatural - like creating clones of a person. Perhaps my existence as an identical twin has influenced my thoughts about this. Growing up, people seemed to want to make us a set, but it was always very important for us both to be our own persons.
This fixation with uniqueness extends to my creative process. I embrace my human mark in my artwork – its perfect imperfection. For me, the process of creation involves coaxing order out of chaos, representing the battle between fate and chance.
Biography
Dana Frostick was born and raised in Richmond, VA in the later half of the 20th century. She decided at the age of 6 that she would be an artist when she grew up. Frostick studied fine art with an emphasis on Sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University in the 1980s. In 1999, after a lengthy career with the Richmond Times-Dispatch in pre-press and electronic publishing, Frostick retired to pursue her calling.
Website: danafrostick.com
IG: danafrostick
Dana Frostick, “Ancestral Communications, 2 of 2 E.V.,” monoprint.
Susan T Rivers, "Fractures"
Susan T Rivers, "Lasting scars," 20 w x 16 h
Susan T Rivers, "X-Ray"
Susan T Rivers, "Pond Frost," 18x18 framed
Susan T Rivers, "Discards"
Dana Frostick, "Haze of Battle, 2 of 3 EV," monoprint
Dana Frostick, "Before the Thaw, 4 of 4 EV," monoprint
Dana Frostick, "Mythic Origins," sharpie and acrylic on canvas
Dana Frostick, "Parachute the Shark," sharpie and acrylic on canvas
Dana Frostick, "Sedimentary Leopard," sharpie and acrylic on canvas