Seattle, WA - Fountainhead Gallery is pleased to present a new series of oil paintings by contemporary abstract artist, Anne Hayden Stevens, whose work has been exhibited regularly with Fountainhead Gallery for nearly twenty years. New Paintings will feature sixteen new works by the artist that explore the bridge between landscape and abstraction.
Drawing from a host of inspirations--including feminist contextual art history, Greek mythology and traditions of Chinese landscape painting--Anne Hayden Stevens focuses on two characters in this newest body of work: The Philosopher and Narcissus. Each of these figures exists within landscapes that are abstracted yet grounded in reality, some marked by brilliant swirls of color, while others stem from a more sobering and restrained palette.
As Anne Hayden Stevens describes them, The Philosopher is a “manifestation” of historical Chinese female poets, artists, writers and intellectuals and an acknowledgement of their absence from the Chinese landscape painting tradition (and art historical canon as a whole) as either subjects or artists. Narcissus, however, is a playful reimagining of Narcissus as a woman and an embrace of the “irony and humor” that such an embodiment entails, a figure on a “never-ending search for her reflection” through a series of otherworldly spaces.
New Paintings by Anne Hayden Stevens will run from June 3 through June 26 at Fountainhead Gallery, located at 625 W. McGraw St., Seattle, WA 98119 and will be open to the public Wednesdays - Sundays, 11am - 6pm.
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