Walking With Water, 2025
I like to walk. Especially during Covid, it became a way to think on my feet while being outdoors, isolated, in motion, and visually focused on my immediate environment. Then it was my hillside in Vermont and near my studio in Providence RI. More recently I’ve expanded my walks in other places where I paint, especially in Rome and New York City. Alone, with phone in hand, I find myself stopping often to photograph the moods of and startling images in the water on my walks.
These photos taken between 2020 and 2025 are a distillation of thousands of photographs I made with different amounts of intention, luck, determination, serendipity, discipline and a small amount of on-site editing. Water is always different. It teaches me to see and seek new things, and with new questions I look for new responses. As a painter, I see my phone photos as “found paintings”. I would never paint from these photographs as they are complete as is.
These images, stitched together to simulate a kind of mental walking pace around watery places I know well, form a wordless portrait of how my mind takes in fragments of the everyday and immediate to contemplate universal connections. This video is meant to be a relaxed appreciation of our most precious, exciting, mysterious and constantly recycling resource: WATER.
The loop runs 16:56 minutes
Music by Richard Reed Parry, Heart and Breath Sextet
Played by Ymusic and Nico Muhly
Bunny Harvey: Four Decades
September 16-December 13, 2015
Curated by Meredith Fluke
Davis Museum, Wellesley College
“Bunny Harvey: Four Decades”, a major exhibition at the Davis museum celebrating the work of Bunny Harvey, her career as an artist and her continuing legacy as an educator and mentor.
Photos from the exhibition- works and installation HERE.
Exhibition catalog available for purchase HERE. The catalog includes contributions by William Cain, Nico Muhly, and Eugenia Parry.
CONVERSATION: BUNNY HARVEY & LAURIE SVERDLOVE
SUMMER 2021
AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH
NORTHERN WOODLANDS magazine
WINTER 2020
Outdoor Palette Feature by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol - click to read.
Reflections: Breaths and Murmurs, 2017, oil on canvas
