Contributed by Sharon Butler / In September, Two Coats of Paint welcomes Chicago-area painter Anne Hayden Stevens. Her primary endeavor is to examine how we navigate and relate to physical and psychological spaces. How do we claim territory, seek refuge, and forge paths, literally and metaphorically? Her deft brushwork captures the psychological nuance of this exploration, creating surfaces that from a remove present as bold but reveal their fragility up close. Images of shadowed groves seem to offer sanctuary, and tiny, meandering figures speak to one’s often precarious search for a place in the world.

Interview with Lisa Degliantoni of the Lisa D Show
November 2019

Woman Meets Nature, by Noelani Kirschner
The American Scholar, October 2018