Susan Davens

Vernal Pool

Susan Davens is an alternative process photography artist who lives and works in Maine.

“Having found alternative processes to reproduce what I photograph has opened so many possibilities for me.  I have a preference for cyanotypes because of the cool and muted colors and all shades of blue.   Recently I’ve started working with Ware’s process which has a completely different range of blues.”

- Susan Davens

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EXHIBITIONS

• 2020 Cyanotype, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine

• 2020 Light Sensitive, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, Arizona

• 2017 The Door Between, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, Maine

• 2016 blue 2, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas

• 2016 Out of the Blue:  Explorations in Cyanotype, Photosynthesis Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut

• 2016 An Ordinary Day, University of Maine, Belfast, Maine

• 2015 Simplicity, Stillpoint Gallery,

• 2015 Resonance, Kingman Gallery (solo), Deer Isle, Maine

• 2015 Maine Media Exhibition + College Exhibition, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, Maine

• 2015 Highways and Byways, Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine

• 2015 Silver, Salt and Sun, Historic Processes from Photographers Today, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, Maine

• 2014 Images of Change, Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library. Portland Maine

• 2012 Narratives, Betts Gallery, Belfast, Maine 

PUBLICATIONS

• 2019 Anderson, Christina Z.  Cyanotype:  The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice, Focal Press, New York (photos used in book)

• 2017 Light Leaked, Process Alternative, Innovative Approaches to Alternative Processes, March Issue

• 2016 Out of the Blue:  Explorations in Cyanotype, Exhibition Catalog

EDUCATION

• Maine Media Workshops

• Philadelphia College of Art, BFA Photography