Seeds of Change, with its references to natural cycles of growth, renewal, and hope arrives fittingly at the end of a winter of extreme weather conditions.

In this solo show, Stivison’s paintings depict natural objects and symbols seemingly floating, untethered in the wind or in deep and shallow bodies of water. Seed pods, stones, plankton, strands of DNA and nautical charts commingle. Stivison says she is inspired by her reading, observation, and interest in petroglyphs and ancient rock carvings and paintings. “Like most of us, I have been deeply concerned about climate change. Reading The Human Age by Jane Ackerman I began feeling less hopeless… about the varied possibilities for the future of the planet.” This aspect of hope inspired the series featured in the exhibition

 Stivison said, “I am experimenting with ideas of depth on the canvas. Most of the works are devoid of classic horizon lines and avoid using Eurocentric perspective with vanishing points. In the smaller works, shapes and symbols merely float on the surface.”