Susan B. Bidwell

Before receiving a formal education in photography, Susan was taught the rudiments of black and white photographic processing by fellow members of the Alice Springs Camera Club in the Northern Territory of Australia.  Following her return to the United States, she enrolled at the Northern Virginia Community College where she engaged in photographic studies for several years.  Since then, her artwork has won numerous awards and is held in public and private collections.

One person exhibitions include The Gellman Room at the Richmond Public Library; The Main Exposure Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; the duPont Gallery at Washington and Lee University, Lexington; and the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg.

Juried exhibitions include The Roanoke City Art Show, Art Museum of Western Virginia; Photography and Digital Image Biennial Exhibition, East Carolina State University, Greenville, North Carolina; Contemporary Photography in Virginia, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke; Light Images, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; The Red Clay Survey, The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama; Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; National 2003, Cooperstown, NY; and Works on Paper, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

One of the fascinating aspects of photography is the sense of altered reality that awaits discovery by whoever will look closely enough.  I am a still life photographer, always looking for that small world - hidden and yet not hidden, real and unreal, objective and nonobjective.  Altered reality and seeing what I have not previously seen - I search for these phenomena.