Stephanie Rivers is a contemporary artist based in Beacon, NY. Her work depicts natural environments particularly scenes inspired by her surroundings in the Hudson Valley.
The Hudson River and surrounding wildlife are often featured in her work. Her process involves bringing the experience of being in nature back to her studio through memory and sketches. Reinterpreting specific locations back in the studio leads to formal discoveries in mark making and color.
Her paintings operate on the boundary of abstraction and reality, often using atmospheric washes and gestural brushwork. Rivers technique emphasizes the texture of the linen and the physical application of paint, often leaving the linen exposed in areas.
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Education
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2010
School of Visual Arts, BFA, New York, NY
2003
Selected Exhibitions
2025—BeaconArts Member Exhibition, KuBe Art Center, Beacon, NY
2024—The Shape of Things, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY
2024—BeaconArts Member Exhibition, Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, NY
2019—Small Works Exhibit, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY
2017—Chocolate Show, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY
2014—BOS Exhibit, The Lofts Gallery, Beacon, NY
2013—Fine Arts Faculty,Waddell Art Gallery, Sterling, VA
2010—Float, Stack and Shift, Adam Lister Gallery, Fairfax, VA
2010—A Little Piece of Painting, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2010—Graduate Degree Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2009—Electric Landscape, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2007—Permanent Present, curated by Gina Beavers, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2007—The Optic Nerve, The Outsiders Studio, Livingston Manor, NY
