Marion, MA - Artists Lisa Goren and Heather Stivison are featured in a new exhibition opening on July 11 with a reception from 5-7 pm. The artists, who are long-time friends, bring to life an appreciation of the natural world, and the need to protect our fragile home. The luminous quality of the work reflects a fascination with water, with ice, and with observed patterns on earth. 

Heather Stivison is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries across the United States and in juried shows in Europe and Asia. Influenced by her mother, who was an art teacher, and her father, who was a research scientist, much of Stivison’s work stands at the intersection of the two fields of art and science. She frequently translates philosophical or scientific concepts into color, line, and form.

Throughout her career, she has believed in the importance of serving the arts community and her fellow artists. She currently serves as the chairman of the board of South Coast Artists, Inc. She is an elected Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and is on the Board of Directors of NAWA’s Massachusetts Chapter. She was the founding president of the Dartmouth Cultural Center and the co-chair of the Dartmouth Cultural Council. Stivison, also a former museum director, is a former president of both the New Jersey Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. She is a published author and essayist who also writes occasional art reviews for Artscope Magazine. She is represented at Pleiades Gallery in New York City and creates her work in Hatch Street Studios, New Bedford, MA.

Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip to Antarctica inspired her to capture this world. Travels to Iceland and Alaska followed. Her watercolors examine this unfamiliar landscape and create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet with her representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.

Earning a place on the 2013 Arctic Circle Residency, she chronicled the journey in the New York Times. During the pandemic, she has been working on smaller paintings of animals in “human” spaces as well as portraits of health care workers (chosen to be in The Best Art Created by Washington Post Readers During the Pandemic by Washington Post). In 2024, Lisa participated in two artist residencies: in Iceland (January) and France (October). Lisa heads to Nantucket and France for residencies in 2025.

Show Dates: Friday, July 11 - Friday, August 15, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 5:00-7:00pm

Gallery Talk with the Artists: Saturday, August 2 at 11:00am

The exhibition is open through August 15, 2025. The MAC Galleries are located at 80 Pleasant St., Marion, MA. Gallery hours through July 25 are Wed-Fri 1:00-5:00pm, Saturdays 10am-2pm. The MAC is closed to visitors on Sundays and Mondays. Regular gallery hours resume on July 31, Thurs-Sat 10am-2pm daily.

For more information visit www.marionartcenter.org/on-exhibit.