About Dream Stations
Dream Stations is a collection of five imagined worlds, each one reflecting the ways we're shaped by the structures around us. They appear soft at first—colorful, playful, easy to enter. But beneath the surface is a quiet architecture of control. Mouths appear throughout. Teeth turning. Tongues stretching into conveyor belts. They chew you up and spit you out into a version of yourself you no longer recognize. Each station mirrors a system we're taught to trust: the classroom, the office, the idea of an American dream—offering the illusion of growth while rewarding conformity. You learn quickly which parts of yourself are easier to leave behind. Dream Stations traces the passage through those spaces—the damage, the forgetting, the slow undoing of who you were. But it's also about finding your way back. Back to something whole and untouched and still alive beneath it all. A return not to who you used to be, but to the version of you that was never lost—only waiting.
About the artist
Alyssa Stevens is a New York-based artist working primarily with oil pastel. Her practice is rooted in the exploration of the space between worlds - formed by memory, longing, and connection. Often drawn to familiar places from childhood that feel altered and suspended in time, Stevens returns to these realms through her work, viewing them as portals to process loss, the unseen, and the impermanence of it all. Her process is intuitive, driven by feeling and form, and guided by a desire to understand what ties her to these in-between spaces.