Exhibitions
Solo International and Group Exhibitions
I think installations can create discursive space. It can redefine our ideas about ownership and public participation in issues that touch common good. I consider exhibitions to be important educational venues for sharing ideas and reaching audiences, particularly when I have had the opportunity to work with innovative curators such as Monika Fabijanska and the late Amy Lipton.
Having installations around the globe has showcased my ideas to my colleagues in a variety of ways. The following details some of those installations to engage international audiences.
Blued Trees Coda, The Perspective Gallery, Virginia
A performative climax of the exhibition was timed in response to the 2016 presidential election. At Virginia Tech — branches painted with a casein of buttermilk and ultramarine blue pigment with 10- 60” x 36” hanging translucent panels printed with text excerpted from my writings about the legal issues were suspended from the gallery ceiling in an environment of immersive birdsong.
— Photo: Sarah Miller
Global Blued Trees, Carbon Art Project - Group Exhibition
A meditative visual analysis with immersive birdsong of where refugia might remain after all polar ice has melted. Curated by Yu Hyun-Ju at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) Art Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea. 10’x15’ Photomontage with suspended, ultramarine blue painted local quince branches illustrating sea-level rise when all Arctic and Antarctic ice melts, and some remaining refugia for terrestrial life.
— Photo: Aviva Rahmani
String Quartet Performance, Virginia
String Quartet Coda performance with the Blued Trees Symphony installation in Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, followed by a performance of a new score by I composed about the legal premises.
— Photo: Robin Scully
Blued Trees in NYC; The Sea Will Have the Last Word, Anita Rogers Gallery, NYC New York, 2024
The Blued Trees Opera, preview, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2023
Hunt for the Lost an outdoor public art installation in 3 parts, Governors Island, New York, 2020
Mock Trial Blued Trees Symphony produced by A Blade of Grass at the Cardozo School of Law, NYC, NY, 2018
Blued Trees Symphony, coordinated by Robin Scully, Blacksburg, VA - one of almost 100 GPS located sites - 2016
If, curated by Bruce Brown demonstrating the aquatic linkages between open spaces in Portland Maine and the Mississippi Water Basin, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, 2000
Ghost Nets, Environmental Restoration/ Performance Installation of restoring wetland sites that had previously functioned as the island’s former dump site, Vinalhaven, ME, 1991 to 2000
Echoes of the Islands, Public Art Landscape Sculptures, Vinalhaven Island Ferry Terminal, for the Maine Department of Transportation - initially created for Site Specific a group show curated by Pat Nick - Vinalhaven Island, ME, 1999
REQUIEM, curated by Tom Kocheiser, Gallery 210, University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 1990
REQUIEM, curated by David Beck Brown, Grossmont College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1989
Floating Worlds: Ghost Dreams, Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 1983
Floating Worlds Revisited, performance/installation, Woodland Pattern Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Film in the Cities Gallery, St. Paul, MI, 1983
Floating Worlds Part 3 (image shown), performance/installation, Rachel Rosenthal’s Espace DBD, Los Angeles, CA, 1983
Floating Worlds Part 2, performance/installation, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1983
Floating Worlds Part 1, performance/installation, Center for Music Experiment, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1983
Floating Worlds: Child Birth, performance/installation, White Columns Gallery, New York City, NY, 1982
New Paintings, Art Gallery, United States International University, San Diego, CA, 1983
Stay, Wait, Look, Listen, My Symphony, performance/installation, Gallery 707, Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA, 1974
The American Ritual Theatre (touring performance company) director and founder, Art Gallery, University of CA, Diego at La Jolla, CA and San Diego State College, San Diego, CA September 14 - December 12, 1968 to 1973
(Aviva Stevens was my married name).
Group Exhibitions
The Blued Trees Symphony and Opera, Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism
LAXArt , West Dem Haag, The Hague, Netherlands, 2025
Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism
LAXART The Brick, The Exquisite River, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, 2024
Emergence, Sichuan Fine Art Institute
Curated by Lipong Ji, Chongqing, China, 2023
American Borderwaters
Curated by Elizabeth Hawley Alabama Contemporary Art Center (ACAC), Mobile, AL, 2023
11 Ecoartists, Various Small Fires
Curated by Newton Harrison, Los Angeles, CA Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats curated by Sue Spaid, Williamsburg Art and Historic Center, New York, NY, May 7-June 4, 2022
CURRENT | UNDERCURRENT
Curated by Linda Griggs & M. Charlene Stevens, Hampden Gallery, Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst, MA Feb 1- May 14, 2021
ecofeminism(s)
Curated by Monika Fabijanska, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY, June 18 - July 24, 2020.
Sixth
Curated by Jane Hart at Bridge Red, Miami, Florida, 2017.
Carbon Art Project
Curated by Yu Hyun-Ju at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Art Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea, 2017.
The NEW American Patriot: A Climate Action Exhibition
Curated by Rolando Chang Barrero and Mary Jo Aagerstoun, The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL July 1-10, 2016
Emergent Ecologies
Art film screening in exhibition, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, NY, May 21, 2016.
History of Visual Arts in Boulder – EcoArts Connections at NCAR
Curated by Lisa Gardiner and Marda Kirn at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Boulder, CO, 2016.
Earth SOS
Curated by Eleanor Flomenhaft and Marcia Annenberg, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY, 2016.
GROUNDED VISIONS: Artistic Research into Environmental Issues
Zurich, Switzerland, November 27 - March 23, 2015 - 2016.
Works on Paper
Curated by Elaine Crossman, New Era Galley, Vinalhaven ME, September 5 – 25, 2015
Seiche Torque: Medicine Wheel Murals
Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY also exhibited at Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1985