A N S L E Y W E S T R I V E R S
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S E L E C T E D P O R T F O L I O S
SEVEN RIVERS II
SEVEN RIVERS
SIXTY-FIVE DAYS OF QUARANTINE
TREE PORTRAITS
MAPS from SEVEN RIVERS
LUNAR TRACES
A B O U T T H E A R T I S T
Ansley West Rivers (American, b. 1983) holds a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. West Rivers’ work is featured in many public and private collections including the Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Judge Collection, LaGrange Art Museum, and The Mayo Collection. Additionally, West Rivers's work has been shown at The Wiregrass Museum (Dothan, AL), Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (San Francisco, CA), Sous Les Etoiles Gallery (New York, NY), Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver BC), The David Brower Center (Berkeley, CA), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), Hathaway Gallery (Atlanta, GA), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA). She currently lives with her husband and two children in Victor, Idaho.
Photo by Jason Thrasher
P R E S S
2023 Arieli, Karni, Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home & Motherland
2019 Ciel Variable: Art Photo Media Culture, Issue 113, Fall 2019
2019 NSEW, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2019
2016 Tempest Williams, Terry, The Hour of Land, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 31, 2016.
2016 The Sun, Issue 482, February
2015 Bass, Rick (editor), “Growing Up, Getting Older”, Whitefish Review: Issue #18, Winter 2015-16.
“Lay of the Land”, Orion Magazine, July/August, 2015.
Rich, Jeff, “Ansley West Rivers: Seven Rivers”, Oxford American, February 2015.
Brooks, Katherine, “Why One Photographer Is Devoted To Capturing America's Disappearing Rivers”, The Huffington Post, January 14, 2015.
2014 Hirsch, Caroline, “A Photographer’s Evocative Portraits of Rivers in Flux”, The New York Times, December 4, 2014.
Ferro, Shaunacy, “Haunting Pictures Of America's Disappearing Rivers”, Fast Company Design, December 14.
Schwartz, Jennifer, “Focal Point Q4.14”, Crusade for Art, 2014.
Rich, Jeff, “Racquet & Rose: Eyes on the South”, Oxford American, 2014.
2013 MFA NOW 2013, exhibition catalogue, Root Division, 2013.
2012 Slow Exposures 2012, A Juried Exhibition Celebrating the Rural South 2012 MFA NOW, exhibition catalogue, Root Division
2012 John Baldessari Show at the Wattis Gallery, San Francisco Weekly
2011 Whitefish Review: Volume 5, Issue 2
2010 Shots Magazine, no. 108
E X H I B I T I O N S
Envisaged Landscapes
November 4 - January 20, 2024
at EUQINOM Gallery
Seven Rivers
July 8 - September 5, 2020
at EUQINOM Gallery
V I D E O S
