Across the Studio with Alyssa Stevens

In the 11th episode of Across the Studio, Mia Schoolman sits down with Alyssa Stevens, a New York-based artist working primarily in oil pastel on canvas. Rooted in memory, longing, and the in-between spaces formed by childhood, Alyssa's practice returns again and again to the places that feel suspended in time. Her work is immediately recognizable — colorful, playful, and intentionally chaotic. Every mark is intuitive, guided by feeling and form, and what emerges on the canvas is as much a self-portrait as it is a mirror held up to the universal experience of finding yourself again. In this conversation: the childhood places she returns to in her mind and in her dreams, quitting her corporate data analyst job weeks after her first collection sold out in two days, what it means to find acceptance through abstraction, and why she believes every mark — even the ones she regrets — is exactly where it's supposed to be. Follow Across the StudioInstagram @acrossthestudioTikTok @acrossthestudio Follow Alyssa StevensInstagram @alyssastevensssssalyssastevens.com