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Stephanie York was born in 1980 and currently lives in Phoenix Arizona with her husband and young son. She has created and practiced art in many forms most of her life and has most recently studied fine art at the University of Cincinnati in the DAAP school BFA program. Her art has been showcased in many different venues some of which include galleries, museums, art fairs, and public spaces. Her paintings are currently being represented by a leading commercial gallery in Washington DC, Gallery A of Alex Gallery. Her current and ongoing collection of paintings are an abstracted exploration of the human experience and the relationship it has with her personal reality. The twists, turns, tunnels, paths and creatures visible in her work are all attempts to evaluate the endless possibilities of everyday experience, moments, fractions of time, each individual and apparent implication and their relationship and connection to each other. These works are created using primarily acrylic paint, watercolor, sumi Japanese ink, a calligraphy pen on canvas, paper or hardboard.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I've been connected to the arts my whole life and in many forms. The first time I recall consciously being excited and driven to create I was in elementary school and I knew I was an artist. I went to a school for the arts as a youngster and continued at art school furthering my education as a young adult studying fine art with an emphasis in photography. After a period in my life of working and going to school full time I decided to step away and start a body of work that truly inspired me, that conveyed artistic freedom on my own terms. I wanted to find a way to naturally express without pretext or definition. While figuring out where to begin I remembered as a kid how I loved to sit and doodle without a care in the world. What wonderful worlds I would get lost in. Each stroke of my pen would push me further and further into what I felt was a magical place. The innocence of that memory, turned idea, the thought of a child with no real agenda except to be content, connected and happy in her world is what inspired me to create my newest body of work in that vain. I began by focusing on the seemingly subconscious within myself and translating that into my work, remembering those entwining childhood environments they surfaced as paths to my psyche. These twists, turns, tunnels, paths and creatures are reflections of everyday experiences and moments that lead to my interpretation of the connection between mind, body, spirit and our world at large. I enjoy focusing on these possible connections within myself and translating that into my work and feel that in doing so I reveal a truth that may have had no other way of escape.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PAINTING PROCESS
I start a painting usually by dripping washing or coating the surface with acrylic paint or watercolor allowing the colors to run and meld into each other by tipping the canvas or hardboard in multiple directions. After building up many layers of color I begin the process of laying bold black ink strokes. In most cases I have no real composition in mind I just let it flow. After I lay down the basic shapes within the painting I fine tune them with a calligraphy pen and also use that tool to accentuate and create details giving the paintings depth. After that I usually fill in spaces with additional color to ballance the piece. I found later through showing my artwork that almost as much as I enjoyed creating the work I absolutely loved the things that people were able to see in them, the worlds that people were able to create. Its as if my paintings come full circle. I start and finish with the intent to blissfully enjoy. In the end the works create environments that present different scenarios to each person which in turn gives way to the true nature of the pieces, the reason they were created in the first place. Creating is my passion in any form really; just having the opportunity to come up with something that encapsulates individualized expression is really thrilling. I primarily use acrylic paint, Japanese sumi ink on canvas, watercolor paper or hard board.
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
Alex Gallery / Gallery A 09/09 Washington, DC
Group Show 04\04 Urban Dayton, OH
Type Media 07\04 - Therapy Café Dayton, OH
Art on the Lawn 08\04 Yellow Springs, OH
Pyramid Hill Art Fair 08\04 Cincinnati, OH
Street Fair 10\04 Yellow Springs, OH
Solo show 03\03 The Winds Café Yellow Springs, OH
Solo show 04\03 Carols on Main Cincinnati, OH
Solo show 05\03 Higher Grounds Dayton, OH
DVAC Gift Gallery 11\03 Dayton, OH
Street Fair 1 0\02 Yellow Springs, OH
Solo show 06\99 Seattle East Dayton, OH
DVAC Camera 02\03 (Dayton Visual Arts Center)
Schuster Center for the Performing Arts 06\03
Sinclair Scholarship 08/02
The Distorted Dollar (mural) residency program, permanent instillation at the Dayton Art Institute
Dayton Links Sugar Plum Competition in cooperation with the Dora Lee Tate Service Center 1st place winner
Hypotenuse Gallery Spring 98
Ohio Governors Youth Art Exhibition Regional and Statewide
Scholastics Art Competition Multiple Gold and Silver Key Winner (gold key) Photo Portfolio regional finalist.
Congressional Art Exhibition
O.A.E.A. Western Region Exhibit
K-12 Gallery for young people
Colonel White Alumni Exhibit
Honors
Recommended by the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (Arts) for Awards Recognition and biography to be published in Whos Who among American High School Students, 1998 99
We will gladly work with you to customize a painting or group of
paintings to fit your specific color and sizing needs creating
pieces that are uniquely perfect for your space.
Some of the paintings shown in
the gallery are currently represented
by Alex Gallery a leading commercial
gallery in Washington DC.
The pieces with an Alex Gallery link
below the title and description are only
available for purchase from the gallery
directly. If you are interested in one of
these particular piece please click on
the link and contact the gallery
for pricing.
Otherwise....
untill the shop is up and running please
contact us for sizing and finish options
in limited edition art print form as well as
to see which originals are still available.
Also we will gladly customize a painting or group of paintings
to your specific color and size requirements creating the perfect
piece for your space.
CONTACT US
silverphoenixdesign_yahoo.com
937.405.8319
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This gallery of work contains original, fresh, modern
abstract paintings that compliment the
contemporary interior.
IN THE PINK 1 4X4
sumi ink and acrylic on paper
2003
IN THE PINK 3 4X4
IN THE PINK 2 4X4
BLUES 1 4X4
BLUES 3 4X4
BLUES 2 4X4
PURPLE-RED 24x24
sumi ink and acrylic on hard board
2009
GREEN-YELLOW 24x24
BLUE - PINK 24x24
original available for purchase at Alex Gallery
please contact them for pricing
RED 48X48
sumi ink and acrylic on canvas
YELLOW 48X48
2009 SOLD
SPINY - PINK 24x24
sumi ink and acrylic on hardboard
2006 SOLD
PINK SHORTY 1 4X4
YELLOW SHORTY 1 4X4
RED SHORTY 1 4X4
YELLOW SHORTY 2 4X4
RED SHORTY 2 4X4
PINK SHORTY 2 4X4
BLUE-SKY 24X24
EXTENSION 24X424
PINK 48X48
BLUE - GREEN 24x24
sumi Iik and acrylic on hard board
BLUE 48X48
LIME-ORANGE 16X16
2003 SOLD
BLUE - GREEN - PINK 16X16
YELLOW - RED - PINK 16X16
CREAM-ORANGE-YELLOW 16X16
BLUE-YELLOW-GREEN 16X16
PINK-YELLOW-ORANGE 16X16
AUGUR 24X24
2004
HALE 48X48
2004 SOLD
VELDT 16X16
sumi ink , acrylic and photo transfer
2005
TRIODE 16X16
2005 SOLD
CAUDEX 16X16
2006
ENVIRON 16X24
2007 SOLD
SEED 16X24
VELVET 16X24
VELVET 2 16X24
NATURE'S FUSION 1
B&W photo assemblage 16x16
NATURE'S FUSION 2
JOSHUA'S LIGHT
photo assemblage 16x16
CHOCOLATE TREE
RAINBOW BRIGHT
DISTRESSED 1
photo assemblage 16x24
DISTRESSED 2
DISTRESSED 3
FORGOTTEN 1
color photograph 16x24
FORGOTTEN 2
CLOUDY FLOWERS
WINDOW TO THE PAST
SILVER STATIC
color photograph 16x16
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