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“Ebb & Flow: The Many Faces of Water” is artist Heather Stivison’s third New York City solo show. In this series of oil and acrylic paintings, Stivison does not “illustrate” water as in plein air paintings or photographs. Instead, she paints to capture the essence of water—something clear and colorless, with its shape formed entirely by the external forces of objects, land, wind, gravity. Searching for water’s most primary qualities, she uses light, color, form, shape, line, to engender a sense of water. Fluidity, reflections, rhythms are evident in her ocean surface paintings. Stivison is fascinated by the reflections and patterns created by the coastal ocean surface. She paints variations on patterns, exploring how much she can change them and still maintain the sense that the subject is surface water.
In addition to surface water, the exhibition includes larger paintings, some a full five-feet-wide, that explore the sense of weightlessness and mystery that she finds in the imagining unknown ocean depths.
A special feature of this exhibition is an on-demand sound installation of original jazz music composed and performed by scientist Noah Germolus, during his time researching ocean chemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Germolus and Stivison took part in a multi-year collaboration where she interpreted his data in paint. He in turn, interpreted four of her paintings in music.
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Heather Stivison is an award-winning visual artist whose work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries across the United States and in juried shows in Europe and Asia. She believes in the importance of serving the arts community and her fellow artists. Stivison currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of South Coast Artists, Inc. She is an elected Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and serves on the Board of NAWA’s Massachusetts Chapter. She is a former museum director, who also served as president of both the New Jersey Association of Museums and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.
She holds an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and creates her work in Hatch Street Studios, New Bedford, MA.
"Contemporary artist Heather Stivison transports us to transcendent realms in her “Water Series” where the inherent nuances of nature’s aqueous properties arouse a palpable visceral force. We are lulled into a euphoric reverie that awakens and restores our mind and soul.
Stivison ventures beyond nature’s physical boundaries into abstraction with the profusion of free-flowing biomorphic patterns and tonal ranges. In her paintings the innate attributes of water evolve into metaphors, symbolism and visual poetry. She emphasizes the varied atmospheric influences of elements and their rhythmic interactions. The warm luminosity of the sun and the gentle whispers of the wind create radiant ripples that coalesce in contrast and harmony."--excerpt from review by Renee Phillips, Director &Curator, Manhattan Arts International
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