Tabitha Vevers:
Climate Change at Art Miami Fair
Tabitha Vevers. Photo & Design: Raymond Elman.
“Several of my paintings being exhibited in the Clark Gallery booth at Art Miami are about climate change (and sea level rise) as are many of my paintings over the past decade or so, starting with my “Eden Series,” which depicted a new species struggling to evolve in a post-apocalyptic Garden of Eden. The lobster paintings reference Shiva, the many-limbed Hindu god of both creation and destruction. The lobster is also a metaphor for the male stereotype, with its protective exo-skeleton and soft interior. I’ve also been struck by how lobsters have had to continually migrate north because of climate change—that was my thinking behind SHIVA: Northern Nocturne.”
— Tabitha Vevers
Shiva: Sea Change. Oil and gold leaf on mylar. 16 x 14 inches.
Shiva: Northern Nocturne. Oil and gold leaf on mylar. 16 x 14 inches.
The Thinker. Oil and 23k gold leaf on mylar. 15.5 x 12 inches.
Tabitha Vevers received her B.A. from Yale University and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The George & Helen Segal Foundation, Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the University of Rhode Island Visual Arts Sea Grant, and painting fellowships to The Ballinglen Arts Foundation (Ireland), Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany), Fine Arts Work Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The MacDowell Colony.
Vevers has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in numerous public and private collections. She was born in New York City to artists Elspeth Halvorsen and Tony Vevers, and is married to the artist Daniel Ranalli.
