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Rarely will you find anyone so passionate about her life's work as May Stevens, artist, feminist and political activist. She may look petite, but her ideas are overpowering and inspiring qualities inherent to her visual artistry.
In a series of paintings influenced by her two "mothers"--her "real" mother, Irish Catholic housewife Alice Stevens, and her "spiritual" mother, Jewish revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg--Stevens creates an emotionally-charged vision of her two main inspirations. Through visual means, Stevens strives to bring Rosa closer to herself in...
What's unique in much of Stevens's work is her ability to convey emotion in simplistic terms. Having already explored the juxtaposition of two noteworthy individuals in her first series, she sought to incorporate something different, yet equally effective, into her second series entitled Women, Words, and Water.
Taken by Julia Kristeva's words about women's desire and by Virginia Woolf's ideas about the oppression of women and self-realization through work, Stevens entered another phase in which she merged visual and literary artistry into her paintings. "Sea of Words" is one product of her experimentation...
Stevens is often criticized for telling too much about the underlying meaning of her work. Some critics say she should just "let go" and allow the paintings to speak for themselves. As an observer who prefers to make my own interpretations of an artist's work, I was surprised at...