Tabitha Vevers

Tabitha Vevers is a conjurer of images and a trader of dreams. She is an artist that takes art history apart and reassembles it with a modern narrative informed by her own experience as a contemporary woman. She is that most mysterious of artists, one who transcends the traditional role of painter; using tropes and techniques from art history to tell cunningly contemporary—yet—timeless stories. Vevers' work is all about the details; combining the precious with the pensive, an arresting narrative with a jittery and feminist agenda. She draws you in with a flashy thrum of gold leaf, a seductive level of detail and craft; leaving you with new perspectives to contemplate the world around us and what it means to be human.

Tabitha Vevers is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including grants from the Pollock—Krasner Foundation, The George + Helen Segal Foundation, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, 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 was a co-founder of artSTRAND and has served as a member of the curatorial committee of the Provincetown Art Association + Museum, the admissions panel of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Artists’ Advisory Board of Castle Hill Center for the Arts. She received her B.A. from Yale University and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting + Sculpture. Vevers has exhibited across the country and in Europe and has work in numerous public and private collections. Her work was included in the exhibition On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women as Yale, at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT in 2021-22. It was the subject of a comprehensive exhibition, Tabitha Vevers: Lover’s Eyes, at The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC in 2019-20 and was featured in a major exhibition entitled GOLD, at the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria in 2012. She was honored with a mid—career retrospective entitled Narrative Bodies at the deCordova Sculpture Park + Museum in 2009. Born in New York to artists Elspeth Halvorsen and Tony Vevers, she currently lives and works in Cambridge and Wellfleet, MA and is married to the artist Daniel Ranalli. She is represented by Bookstein Projects, New York, NY.

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