Washington Post Review
September 24, 2021
Refresh XI
“Organic forms abound in “Refresh XI,” a group showcase for Long View Gallery’s regular artists and the venue’s first exhibition in nearly a year. Susan Goldman’s immaculate woodcuts overlap iris-like rounds; Eve Stockton’s prints elegantly distill sea, sky and woods; and Sondra N. Arkin’s deep-focus drawing-paintings submerge bubbles and strands in seemingly aquatic settings. Yet what links these three and the other participants is less their use of nature motifs and more their exquisite craft. The art at Long View may not be thematically provocative, but it’s always beautifully composed and finished.
The gallery tends to show work that’s glossy, symmetrical, hard-edge and abstract, or nearly so. (Among the representational exceptions are Colin Winterbottom’s D.C.-centric photographs and Michael Crossett’s collages of local cultural landmarks, although the latter are far from documentary.) Many of the contributors employ wax, resin or glitter and share a taste for bold colors and hypnotic motifs. With such works as Gian Garofalo’s thick, near-liquid stripe paintings and Kaori Takamura’s assemblages of cookie-shaped painted-wood pieces, “Refresh XI’s” wares often evoke a psychedelic toy store.”
Refresh XI Through Sept. 30 at Long View Gallery, 1234 Ninth St. NW
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post Article
“Eve’s work is very contemporary, very Pow. But you meet Eve and you know every etched wave, every single thing is brought forward by the whole person.”
Carla Massoni, Massoniart, River Arts video, 7/20
2020 Exhibitions
McLean Project for the Arts: “Origin Stories”
Through February 29
McLean Project for the Arts, 1446 Chain Bridge Rd, McLean, VA 22101, WebsiteMassoni Art: “Elemental”
July – August
Massoni Art Gallery, 203 High Street, Chestertown, MD 21620 WebsiteLong View Gallery: “ESCAPE!”, Susan J Goldman & Eve Stockton
September 21 – October 31
Long View Gallery, Online collection at Artsy
Washington Post Review
February 20, 2020
“Although Eve Stockton’s pictures are unusually large for woodcut prints, their scale suits her subjects, which include sea, sky and sun. “Origin Stories,” the Alexandria artist’s show at McLean Project for the Arts, presents about 40 pictures, among them variations on such archetypes as “Waves” or “Clouds.” Immaculately made, the prints often feature repeated patterns and a powerful centeredness. Metallic silver ink evokes energy and light, frequently contrasting rich oceanic or atmospheric blues.
Some of the prints have a clear vantage point. The “Woodland Landscape” series gazes up through the trees, representing that perspective so strongly that viewers may find themselves craning their necks. Other outlooks are more ambiguous, suggesting both macro and micro views. The range of vistas underscores the show’s title. Stockton’s seascapes could depict today’s oceans or the primordial soup that preceded them; her “Bloom” series portrays flowers, but the buds also resemble cells.
Stockton regularly exhibits new prints at Long View Gallery, but this selection includes some older ones, as well as a few sculptures. Among the latter are stone pieces whose streamlined curves are akin to the woodcuts’ simplified ripples. There are waves as well in a floor sculpture, which is surrounded by stones from a Nova Scotia beach. Stockton used to be an architect, a background implied by both this structure and her largest prints, each of them a whole environment. Whether working in one or three dimensions, Stockton conjures a strong sense of place.”
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post Article
Interview with Eve Stockton
April 2019 — Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy
Get to know the personalities behind the images we have the privilege of sharing with you. This month, we posed a few questions to Eve Stockton, a printmaker living and working in Alexandria, VA. Read the full interview with Eve
2019 Exhibitions
McLean Project for the Arts,: “Taking Territory”
Opening Reception on Thursday, April 11, 7-9 PM, and group show runs through June 1.
McLean Project for the Arts, 1446 Chain Bridge Rd, McLean, VA 22101, WebsiteLong View Gallery: “ReFresh”
Opening Reception on Thursday, March 7, 6:30-8 PM, and group show runs through April 7.
Long View Gallery, 1234 9th St., NW, Washington, DC 20001, Website
Washington Post Review
May 24, 2018
“Eve Stockton’s “The Rosie Project” arrays casts of female elbows to celebrate strong women. (“Rosie” is a homage to Rosie the Riveter.) Placed on woodcut prints that are square and silvery, the white plaster forms exhort women “to keep their elbows out — and sharp,” notes Stockton’s statement.”
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post Article
2018 Exhibitions
Kenise Barnes Fine Art: EVE STOCKTON – The World Alongside Ours
Nov 16 -Dec 22.
Kenise Barnes Fine Art 1947 Palmer Ave, Larchmont, NY 10538, WebsiteThe Markland: “The Landscape Show”
August 12 – 31.
The Markland, 802 Dingwall Rd, Dingwall, Nova Scotia, WebsiteLong View Gallery
April 19 – May 28.
Long View Gallery, 1234 9th St., NW, Washington, DC 20001, WebsiteLily Press: “It’s About That Time: Prints From Lily Press”
February 2 – March 4
Exhibit at DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St, Washington, DC 20009
LilyPress Website | Lily Press AnnouncementCarla Massoni Gallery: “SCALE- a matter of perspective”
January 20 – March 4
Carla Massoni Gallery, 203 High St. Chestertown, MD 21620
Website | Massoni Art Flyer (PDF)
Washington Post Review
May 11, 2018
“A few of Stockton’s prints are based on triangle-based patterns, but she derives most of her motifs from nature. Hives, waves, petals and starbursts dominate this selection of the Alexandria artist’s work. The repeated images sometimes pit platinum tones against shades of blue, but are often in a narrow range of metallic shimmers. Eye-catchingly luminous and large enough to immerse the viewer’s attention, Stockton’s pictures are as mesmerizing as glints of sunlight on a rippling pond.”
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post Article
“Eve Stockton elegantly distills sea, sky and woods”.
Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, In the galleries review of Refresh XI group show at Long View Gallery, 9/24/21
Guy Cecil and Evolutionary Landscape on MSNBC, 10/12/20
Waves Diptych, Long View Gallery ’18
Silver Clouds, Long View Gallery ’18
Celebrating the Women’s March on Washington
Podscape Ensemble at Long View Gallery
Eve Stockton Prints Featured in HGTV Property Brothers
July 20, 2016
Two of Eve Stockton prints were sourced from Kenise Barnes Fine Art for Property Brothers: Buying & Selling, Season 5, Episode 1. The house, remodeled by Jonathan Scott and designed by Drew Scott, features a selection from Eve’s Woodland Skyscapes, and the master bedroom includes a print from her Clouds collection.
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Woodland Skyscape on Property Brothers
2016 Exhibitions
Carla Massoni Gallery
February 5 – March 4
Carla Massoni Gallery, 203 High St. Chestertown, MD 21620, Website
Kenise Barnes Fine Art
June 4 – July 9
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, 1947 Palmer Ave, Larchmont, NY 10538, Website
The Markland
August 1-28
The Markland, 802 Dingwall Rd, Dingwall, Nova Scotia, Website
Markland Installation, Dingwall, NS
Eve Stockton Announces Art Installations at NYU Langone Medical Center
September 2015
Eve Stockton is proud to announce several new installations at the New York University Langone Medical Center. Highlights include Ensemble: Clouds & Zumscapes at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, a ceiling application of Woodland Skyscape at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center, and a wall of Blooms at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine.
Ensemble: Clouds & Zumscapes
Primal Power: Eve Stockton evokes the beauty of nature in her bold, graphic woodcut prints
May/June 2015 — Home & Design Magazine
Growing up in rural Chesterland, Ohio, Eve Stockton loved exploring the deep woods and environs near her home. The house, overlooking farm fields, was cantilevered above a ravine that led to a small series of caves. “It was really magical,” recalls Stockton. “I would go out and play for most of the day. It seemed so natural.”
Those early adventures are much more than distant memories for the artist. Drawing from a lifetime of outdoor observations, her large-scale prints—vivid seascapes, hazy landscapes, imagined stirrings of life—conjure the primal power and robust beauty of nature. Inspiration has also come from printed images collected over years. “I’ve always been so interested in nature and exploring imagery,” she says, adding enthusiastically, “Woodcut printing is a brilliant medium for what I want to express.”
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Printing at Lily Press, Photo by Bob Narod
Robert Brown Gallery celebrates 30 years in D.C.
June 28, 2012 — The Washington Post
Some 25 blocks east, Long View Gallery is showing work that has much in common with Kentridge’s and Nash’s. Eve Stockton is a printmaker who uses a traditional form, wood block, but on an unusually large scale. Inspired in part by visits to Nova Scotia, the Connecticut artist crafts views of nature, both macro and micro. Her painstaking technique and some visual motifs, such as waves and branches, recall great Japanese printmakers such as Hokusai (the subject of a recent Sackler Gallery exhibition). But Stockton doesn’t emulate her Japanese precursors’ dramatic compositions, preferring all-over designs that feature repeated forms. She often focuses on modest objects, such as seed pods, or depicts cellular patterns that could represent nature in extreme closeup. If Stockton were to take Mount Fuji as a subject, she’d probably fix on its tiniest details.
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Evolutionary Landscape at Long View Gallery
Eve Stockton Prints Featured in Bounty Hunter Film
March 31, 2011 — PopSugar
Bounty Hunter set designer, Ellen Christiansen, sourced several of Eve Stockton woodcut prints for Jennifer Aniston’s apartment. Featured is blue woodcut “Evolutionary Landscape” and two other large woodcuts from the “Blooms” series. One of Eve’s “Bloom” woodcuts will also be used in the upcoming movie Something Borrowed, and the Laura Linney series The Big C on Showtime.
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Evolutionary Landscape in Bounty Hunter
The secret sci-fi life of plants
April 21, 2010 — The Irish Times
VISUAL ART: THE AMERICAN artist Eve Stockton, whose Evolutionary Landscapes II is currently showing at the Wexford Arts Centre, originally trained as an architect, and there is a strong feeling of order and structure to her coloured woodcuts.
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Bloom Ensemble, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland