Artists Lisa Goren and Heather Stivison are featured in a new exhibition opening on July 11 with a reception from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The artists, who are long-time friends, bring to life an appreciation of the natural world, and the need to protect our fragile home. The luminous quality of the work reflects a fascination with water, with ice, and with observed patterns on earth. The MAC will be hosting a gallery talk on Saturday, August 2 at 11:00 am with both artists.
Heather Stivison is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries across the United States and in juried shows in Europe and Asia. Influenced by her mother, who was an art teacher, and her father, who was a research scientist, much of Stivison’s work stands at the intersection of the two fields of art and science. She frequently translates philosophical or scientific concepts into color, line, and form.
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip to Antarctica inspired her to capture this world. Travels to Iceland and Alaska followed. Her watercolors examine this unfamiliar landscape and create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet with her representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.
The exhibition is open through August 15. The MAC Galleries are located at 80 Pleasant St., Marion. Gallery hours through July 25 are Wed-Fri 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Saturdays 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. The MAC is closed to visitors on Sundays and Mondays. Regular gallery hours resume on July 31, Thurs-Sat 10:00 am to 2:00 pm daily. For more information visit www.marionartcenter.org/on-exhibit.