Susan Detroy is a life-long visual storyteller. Her art career includes ten series in historic and digital photography, transfer prints, paintings and video. Simultaneously forging self-employment careers as a photographer, art curator and gallery manager, she developed unique artworks using alternative photographic techniques. During her years exhibiting hard copy art in the US and Europe, Ms. Detroy broadened her skills to master digital camera-phone and iPad art techniques, applying them to her still imagery and producing fascinating artworks.
Beginning in 2016, employing digital devices and apps, Ms. Detroy responded to internalized messages about aging, fabricating her "Portrait of a Woman" project. 2023 marks the seventh year of "Portrait of a Woman" with the newest video series, "Built for The Future." In the pandemic, utilizing her personal lived experience, Ms. Detroy produced a 40-minute commissioned documentary "In the Now." In the same time period, she developed "The Corona Diaries," vignettes highlighting pandemic living as well as meditative films about her biking and florals. "Las Flores Divinas" are emotive works, offered as NFTs. "Biking the Yellow Road" is her latest video featuring cycling. Scheduled for release in summer 2023 is "Planetary Sisters," art combining Ms. Detroy’s face and aging AI-created women.
Susan Detroy's active lifestyle provides her opportunity to capture her surroundings, turning her life events into stirring, artful videos. Ms. Detroy combines her life experience with natural and cosmic elements leading viewers on intriguing visual journeys. She brings a feminist, woman-affirming perspective to her inventive artworks portraying earth and self-love.