10/05/2026
Currently on view: “The First Language” by Carolyn Stevenson | Online exclusive | Artsy | October 1–31
BUDDAH, 2008
Acrylic on canvas
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/carolyn-stevenson-buddah
Red Springs Artspace presents this month’s “Expanding into the World” showcase—one U.S. artist each month on Artsy.
Carolyn Stevenson paints intuitively, allowing layers of acrylic — color, texture, gesture, and atmosphere — to develop in conversation with one another. Faces and forms appear, dissolve, and reorganize. What looks like weather can become a face; what looks like a face can return to weather.
The work asks whether an image can hold experience before language arrives. Meditation, nature, and a lifelong curiosity about perception and memory inform that inquiry. “The First Language” names the threshold where seeing precedes words.
View the exhibition on Artsy:
https://www.artsy.net/show/red-springs-artspace-the-first-language-by-carolyn-stevenson