Commissioned Artwork, Merz Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland
39" x 240" Pigment on Vinyl
2022

We Are Resting makes reference to Grandma Moses ("We Are Resting" was the title of one of her paintings) as well as to the pandemic (the color of the sky references the "yellow flag," an internationally recognized symbol for contagion). The line of text in the sky: "Keep your secrets under my hat," references a theme of bodily confusion and ambivalence, and asks the viewer to consider the dream-like idea that our bodies not be discrete entities, but fluid and interchangeable instead.

It was in May of 2020 that EveNSteve installed the artwork entitled "My Heart is Very Big" on the land across the street from their art studio, as "a gift to our friends, neighbors, and community." 

The concept has grown to encompass annual exhibitions. Monumental film photographs taken by Stephen are hand-painted with text written by Eve, and then attached to outdoor scaffolding. They include one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is thirty-four feet long.

The initial exhibit, Monuments to Now, was composed of five monumental works that responded to the events of 2020, including the varied emotions of a worldwide pandemic, and a reckoning with profound racial injustice.

The Dollhouse Transformer represents a sacred space; once we go through, we are forever changed. Viewers are given the opportunity with markers to leave a handprint on the interior and answer the questions: "Where Do You Want to Go?" "Who Do You Want to Be?"

The Dollhouse Family and the Black Strawberry, in 2021, asked viewers to consider the relationship of play to art as well as the normalization of pandemic life via themes of confinement, transformation and revelation.

It was in May of 2020 that EveNSteve installed the artwork entitled "My Heart is Very Big" on the land across the street from their studio, as "a gift to our friends, neighbors, and community." The concept has grown to encompass annual exhibitions. Monumental film photographs taken by Stephen are hand-painted with text written by Eve, and then attached to scaffolding. They include one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is thirty-four feet long.

An Echo of Affection in 2022 took as its subject the covered bridges of Vermont as sacred spaces, and the peculiar mythologies of place.

It was in May of 2020 that EveNSteve installed the artwork entitled "My Heart is Very Big" on the land across the street from their studio, as "a gift to our friends, neighbors, and community." The concept has grown to encompass annual exhibitions. Monumental film photographs taken by Stephen are hand-painted with text written by Eve, and then attached to scaffolding. They include one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is thirty-four feet long.

Why We Look Through Windows, in 2023, dealt with how we relate to the world in the aftermath of extraordinary events. Themes included extroversion and introversion, rebirth, and the complex relationship between curiosity and fear.

It was in May of 2020 that EveNSteve installed the artwork entitled "My Heart is Very Big" on the land across the street from their studio, as "a gift to our friends, neighbors, and community." The concept has grown to encompass annual exhibitions. Monumental film photographs taken by Stephen are hand-painted with text written by Eve, and then attached to scaffolding. They include one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is thirty-four feet long.