Color. Memory. Landscape. Reimagined.

Susan Schehapira creates vibrant, expressive paintings that blend realism and abstraction, transforming landscapes and memory into immersive visual experiences through layered color and texture.

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Selected Works

Paintings That Hold Story and Place

Each piece is an exploration of color, memory, and landscape. Through layered acrylic, collage, and expressive gesture, Susan Schapira creates immersive compositions that invite contemplation.

Acrylic/paper.  31x40 framed

Amaryllis Interrupted

On exhibit July and August 2026, with Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Slater Museum, Norwich, CT.

Acrylic on paper. 32”x25.” Following a deep tradition of women and botanical paintings, this painting references the historical tradition of limiting women to certain acceptable subjects, just as women today are rarely allowed to be fully who they are. They turn to subterfuge to illustrate their meaning. One would assume that the glorious amaryllis is the star of this painting, but no less important are reminders of loss and wintering, the emptied seed pods and yellowing ferns. This painting is meant to be beautiful, but look closer and another reality emerges.
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Acrylic/Paper. 28”x 21”

Rustbelt Reimagined

Acrylic/Paper. 28”x 21” If you turn this painting horizontally, you will see that it is an old plough, which I found rusting away in Brooksvale Park in Hamden, CT. Turning it vertically, this piece of old farm equipment becomes monumental and iconic. Rustbelt Reimagined invites us to view the decaying detritus of human industry as something reborn and alive. Curvilinear lines that form cogs and gears blur the distinction between realism and abstraction.
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Acrylic on paper 19” x 25”

Litchfield Flamingo

8”x6. ” Acrylic on Canvasboard. This shiny plastic flamingo set in a private greenhouse, calls out the artificiality and forfeit of wildness in these spaces filled with nature.
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Selected Works

Paintings That Hold Story and Place

Each piece is an exploration of color, memory, and landscape. Through layered acrylic, collage, and expressive gesture, Susan Schapira creates immersive compositions that invite contemplation.

Acrylic/paper.  31x40 framed

Kenti Succulents

Acrylic/collage on paper. 36” x40”. African textiles, acrylic paint suffuse a greenhouse with textures and gestural space, evoking the primitive and naïve in a man-made context.
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Acrylic/Paper. 28”x 21”

Rustbelt Reimagined

Acrylic/Paper. 28”x 21” If you turn this painting horizontally, you will see that it is an old plough, which I found rusting away in Brooksvale Park in Hamden, CT. Turning it vertically, this piece of old farm equipment becomes monumental and iconic. Rustbelt Reimagined invites us to view the decaying detritus of human industry as something reborn and alive. Curvilinear lines that form cogs and gears blur the distinction between realism and abstraction.
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Acrylic on paper 19” x 25”

Litchfield Flamingo

8”x6. ” Acrylic on Canvasboard. This shiny plastic flamingo set in a private greenhouse, calls out the artificiality and forfeit of wildness in these spaces filled with nature.
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New Work Highlights

Each piece invites the viewer to pause — to look closer — and to discover the story hidden beneath the surface. Susan exhibits locally and continues to expand her audience beyond gallery walls.

Where Color Tells a Story

The Artist Behind the Canvas

Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media, Susan’s paintings explore themes of memory, landscape, nature, and transformation. From botanical gardens to desert dreamscapes, her work layers personal narrative with bold color and gestural movement.

LANDSCAPES AND BOTANICAL CARDENS

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FARMS AND FARM EQUIPMENT

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URBAN SKETCHERS AND CURIOSITIES

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Where Color Tells a Story

Custom Work, Thoughtfully Considered

Susan accepts commissions on a selective basis. She specializes in general themes and regional landscapes rather than literal portraiture or pet paintings.

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Commission Form

Solo Shows

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Year : 1987

Babson College, Wellesley, MA

Year : 1985

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Year : 1983

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Year : 1987

Babson College, Wellesley, MA

Year : 1985

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Year : 1983

Where Color Tells a Story

Selected Group Shows

Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts

July and August 2026

Juried Exhibition.  Co-Jurors Catherine Shotick, Museum Director, Westerly Museum of American Impressionism, and Mark Zunino, printmaker, painter.

Slater Museum, Norwich, CT.

SMFA150: Artists for a Changing World. Juried Exhibition

April 2026

Curator, Asya Geisberg, Owner Asya Geisberg Gallery.  Pace Gallery, New York, NY.

Seeing Red.

February 2026

Juried Exhibition. Juror, Antony Zito – Artist and Arts Organizer.  New Britain Art League, New Britain, CT.

Going Places

October 2025

Juried Exhibit. Juror, Catherine Shotick, Director of the Westerly Museum of American Impressionism.   Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT.

Urban Sketchers of Central Connecticut

June 2025

at the Naugatuck Historical Society.  Naugatuck. Historical Society, Naugatuck, CT.

The 3rd Eli Whitney Barn Show

May 2025

 Non-juried. Judged for awards by William Butcher. Hamden Arts League. Hamden, CT

Honorable Mention

Connecticut Women Artists, Inc

April 2025

Members’ Show. Juried Exhibit. Juror: Cat Balco.  Art League of New Britain, New Britain, CT

Edith Briscoe Stevens Award

Sometimes in Winter

February 2025

Open Juried Exhibit. Juror: Grier Torrence. Art League of New Britain, New Britain, CT

Selection des Fetes

1994

La Galerie d’Art International, Quebec, QC, Canada

Flowers

1993

The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY

Selections

1993

Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

L’emotion et le Geste

1992

Centre Castelnauu, Montreal, QC, Canada

AMMO Gallery

1991

AMMO Gallery: “Elements of Drawing,” Brooklyn, NY. Juried by Judy Pfaff.

Brooklyn, NY. Juried by Judy Pfaff

The White Gallery

1990

“Black and White.”

Franklin Lakes, NJ

The Landscape

1988

Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Juried by Wolf Kahn.

Greene St. Gallery

1988

New Images in American Art ’88

New York, NY

SMFA150: Artists for a Changing World.” Juried Exhibition

April 2026

Botanical Narratives Exhibition

Inspired by installations at the New York Botanical Garden, this collection explored abundance, mortality, and transformation through bold color and gestural movement.

Urban Memory & Landscape Series

Drawing from personal history and architectural memory, this exhibition reflected on imagined and remembered spaces

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