Please join us Friday, September 6 during in Winnetka to see new paintings at Arch!
ARCH
913 Green Bay Road, Winnetka
4–7PM Friday, September 6
First Fridays in Hubbard Woods
There will be three galleries open Friday evening in Hubbard Woods: Vivid, recent addition Lunk + Hancy, and a new gallery, opening this month with an incredible exhibition of Chicago + Vicinity artists, c / o Gallery run by artist and curator John Maloof.
Join us in supporting this growing arts district on the North Shore! After I stop in to see the other exhibitions, which are all within a couple blocks on Green Bay Road, I will be at Arch, so please come by and say hello :).
The Philosopher Walks | Evanston Art Center
Paintings, Prints & Sculpture by Anne Hayden Stevens
Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois
Exhibition Dates: June 17 - July 23, 2023
Gallery Hours: MON-THURS: 9 am - 6 pm; FRI: 9 am - 5 pm; SAT & SUN: 9 am - 4 pm
Exhibition Preview: Friday, June 16, 3-5pm
Exhibition Opening: Sunday, June 25th, 1-4pm
Gallery Talk and Exhibition Closing: Sunday, July 23rd, 2pm Gallery Talk 1-4pm Closing Reception
Artist Anne Hayden Stevens was selected for a juror’s award and solo exhibition at the Evanston Art Center by juror Kate Pollasch in the 2021 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial. This exhibition, The Philosopher Walks, includes expansive oil paintings and sculpture in which tiny figures make their way through a mountainous world. Stevens’ textured, high chroma landscapes employ simple forms of trees, bodies, refuges, and water to create space for travelers through the paintings.
Go On Ahead, 2023. 20x16” oil on panel.
Stevens, a painter and printmaker, has made large scale installations in Evanston in two pop-up exhibitions curated by Lisa Degliantoni and EvanstonMade, and curates outdoor installations and screenings at the Evanston Art Center as Side/Lot with artist Mat Rappaport. Stevens participated in the Center Program and Bridge at the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Field/Work program at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
A series of nine paintings on paper, Accountability, will be on display in the exhibition. These paintings were made in response to assignments given to a group of artists, centered around a class of incarcerated artists, by multidisciplinary artist Damon Locks, the director of the Black Monument Ensemble. Locks works as a teaching artist for the Prison+Neighborhood Arts Project, or PNAP, with incarcerated artists at Stateville Prison.
We Are / The Owls, 2023. Two paintings of a nine painting series, Accountability. 22x15” oil on paper.
Locks’ assignments are speculative and forward-looking. He asks the artists to have a conversation with themselves about Accountability, and to ponder a Lost Place, and to make a story about a Transformation. The assignments urge us to envision a liberated world while living in the real world.
Stevens will be present in the galleries for an Exhibition Preview on June 16, 2023, from 3-5pm. The exhibition opens to the public on Sunday, June 25th, from 1-4pm, and there will be a closing reception on Sunday, July 23rd from 1-4pm with an artist’s Gallery Talk at 2pm.
Girl’s Night, 2022. 9x12” oil on panel.
Installation view of Stay Beautiful, 2022.
The Philosopher Walks: Gallery 901 Open Studio Projects
Open Studio Project, 901 Sherman Ave. Evanston 60202
Press inquiries: Anne Hayden Stevens at anne.h.stevens@gmail.com or Sarah Laing at 847-475-0390
Exhibition Dates: August 6–30, 2022
Open Hours: M-F 10am-4pm. To schedule a weekend visit, contact anne.h.stevens@gmail.com
First Saturday in Evanston and Artist’s Opening: August 6, 2022
The Philosopher Walks is an exhibition of 14 luminous landscape paintings, in which tiny figures make their way through a mountainous, unknown world. Stevens, a painter and printmaker, has made large scale installations in Evanston in two pop-up exhibitions curated by Evanston Made and Lisa Degliantoni, and curates outdoor installations and screenings at the Evanston Art Center as Side/Lot with artist Mat Rappaport. Stevens participated in the Center Program and Bridge at the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Field/Work program at the Chicago Artists Coalition, and is on the planning committee for the Terrain Biennial, an international public art exhibition based in Oak Park, Il.
In this exhibition at the Open Studio Project, Stevens shares a series of intimate paintings produced during the pandemic. Stevens’ textured and lyrical landscapes employ simple forms of trees, bodies, mountains and water to hold space for the travelers through the paintings. The difficulty of this period, politically and socially, has made it really important to carry the weight of possibility, and the wisdom we know we hold, into the future.
The exhibition includes nine framed paintings on paper, titled ‘Stay Beautiful’, after a song by the Black Monument Ensemble. The paintings’ were made in response to an assignment I received during 2020 from multidisciplinary artist Damon Locks, the director of the Black Monument Ensemble. Locks works as a teaching artist for the Prison+Neighborhood Arts Project, or PNAP, with incarcerated artists at Stateville Prison. During the pandemic, Locks ran a correspondence class for the artists at Stateville and gave them four assignments. He gave the same assignments to some artist friends in the area.
Locks’ assignments are speculative and forward-looking. He asks the artists to have a conversation with themselves about Liberation, and to ponder a Lost Place, and to make a story about a Transformation. The assignments made Stevens think broadly about a liberated world, one full of love and strength and peace for all people. We can talk about Survival, and we can talk about Liberation: the process of doing the assignments helps to set our sights on Liberation for all people.
https://www.openstudioproject.org/gallery-901/
https://www.annestevens.com/