The Tremaine Gallery presents Field Notes, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Eve Biddle, on view Sept. 2 through Oct. 18. Curated by Terri Moore, the exhibition explores themes of memory, transformation, and the cyclical nature of life through a series of works that draw upon the symbolism of snakes and the enduring presence of archaeological artifacts across time.

An Artist Talk with Eve Biddle will take place on Thursday, September 17, from 7 to 7:45 p.m., followed by a public reception on Saturday, September 19, from 4-6 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

In Field Notes, Biddle presents works that draw on the symbolism of snakes as signs of life and fertility while referencing archaeological artifacts across time. The images follow a meandering path, suggesting that neither history nor our own lives move in straight lines. Nature appears ambiguously alive or dead, abstracted and literal at once.

Rather than documenting a specific place, Biddle reshapes the landscape genre through layering, translation, and physical intervention. Her work invites viewers to consider how memory, perception, and presence continually transform the natural world and our understanding of it.

Born in 1982, Eve Biddle is an American contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses object-making, printmaking, curation, and collaborative culture-building. She is a co-founder of the Wassaic Project, a contemporary arts institution in Wassaic, New York, and has collaborated with and presented at institutions including MASS MoCA, Art Omi, Bard College, Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, the School of Visual Arts, RISD, and Storm King. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design, the Williams College Museum of Art, and Sargent's Daughters in New York. She lives and works between Wassaic and New York City.

Art critic Glenn Adamson writes of Biddle's work: "Her iconography is hermetic: serpents, pods, relics, bones, and her palette tends toward the saturnine. Initial appearances may be deceiving, however." Adamson notes that while her work may appear dark in palette and aspect, it "positively pulses with life." He points to the snake as a particularly resonant symbol in her work, an ancient emblem of life and eternity that embodies cycles of renewal, transformation, and possibility.

Through imagery that is simultaneously ancient and contemporary, personal and universal, Field Notes offers viewers an opportunity to reflect on the ways meaning accumulates over time and how memory, perception, and the natural world shape our understanding of the past and present.

Thank Yous From The Artist

Object making is a highly collaborative process. The artist would like to thank Lindsay Rowinski, Lauren Smith, Rhode Island School of Design Glass Department Hot Shop, Ryan Speth, Shiny Sparkle Studio, The Factory, The Powerhouse, Eleanor Thorp, UAP, and Natalie Woodlock.

About the Tremaine Gallery

The Tremaine Art Gallery is located at 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT, and is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The Gallery is closed Mondays.

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