Passionate Visions of Water ; New Exhibit for Stevens
The Washington Times › December 26, 2005
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Painter-poet May Stevens' passion for water - as shouted by the title of her show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, "The Water Remembers: Paintings and Works by May Stevens 1990-2005" - began in her seaside hometown of Quincy, Mass., then solidified when she lived near New York's Hudson River as an adult.
Yet, she says, water only "seized" her emotionally after she viewed an ancient, hollowed-out-log boat at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin that reminded her of the vikings' later longboats. She realized the timeless, global significance of the waters it and other craft had traveled. She realized then - as she writes in the catalog - that water's "circularity" and "continuity" represent a universal spiritual consciousness.See the full content of this document
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Passionate Visions of Water ; New Exhibit for Stevens
Thus began her love affair with water, reflected in what she calls her "Water Paintings," and we're fortunate to see 13 large- scale, unstretched canvases and 14 works on paper here.
Initially, the paintings...See the full content of this document
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