Acrylic on Layered Mylar
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Our second exhibition by emerging Seattle artist, Katy Stone, was in February of 2005. It featured an installation of large-scale work specifically designed for our Main Gallery exhibition space. Recognized for her innovative techniques, materials and installation methods, Stone's work is an intriguing coalescence of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Stone paints biological and botanically-inspired images with acrylic on clear Mylar sheets. She then cuts the imagery to shape and layers the sheets to hang away from the wall. Viewed as a painting sculpturally projected, the work's already great depth is made all the more complex with an additional level of interest introduced by the tinted shadows cast through the paint on the Mylar. The exhibition will include a series Stone's "Falls" pieces - works in watery blues and blood reds that dramatically cascade from the walls - as well as her poetic and elegiac pieces of hanging flowers, leaves and branches.
Born in 1969, Stone received her BFA from Iowa State University in 1992 and her MFA from the University of Washington in 1994. Since her first career gallery exhibition with us in August of 2002, Stone's star has been on the rise. She was given a one-person project space at the prestigious Art Chicago 2002 resulting in gallery representation in both Miami and New York. In 2003 her work was shown at the exclusive Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, and she was commissioned to produce a major outdoor sculpture for Swedish Medical Center. Stone's site-specific installation at Suyama Space in 2004 was an unequivocal artistic and critical success. Her first one-person museum exhibition opened at the Boise Art Museum in January, and her first one-person show in New York opens later in 2005.
UNTITLED (RED SPRAY), 2005
Acrylic on Mylar
52 x 14 x 3 inches $2,000.
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SPILLING STREAM (ODE), 2005
Acrylic on duralar, pins
73 x 7 x 3 inches $2,200.
Detail:
UNTITLED (BLOOD DROPS), 2003
Acrylic on Mylar
45 x 9 x 3 inches $1,500.
SAFETY HORN, 2003
Acrylic on Mylar
42 x 6 x 3 inches $1,500.
HEART STREAM 2, 2003
Acrylic on Mylar
57 x 7 x 3 inches $2,000
CALAMITY BLOOMING (set of 3 leaves), 2002
Acrylic on Mylar
variable dimensions
$500.
Earlier Works on Mylar and Tracing Paper
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VEIN, 2002
Acrylic on Mylar and tracing paper
7.5 x 9.5 inches
$500.
WOUNDS 1, 2 and 3, 2002
Acrylic on Mylar and tracing paper
26 x 18 inches, each framed as shown
$900. each
Detail of WOUNDS I, 2, and 3
"The work is made of Mylar (acetate) with acrylic paint or drawings on tracing paper with inks, acrylics and crayon. It is somewhere in-between drawing, painting, and sculpture. All are the result of repetitive mark making and stream of consciousness drawing. Many of the pieces are constructed or built, assembled in layered components. They grow in size in an organic way; they are the result of accumulation. I like to keep the nature of the way they are made a tangible part of the end product.
I think my work often deals with the relationship between the material and immaterial - I want to create things that manifest a presence of both the known and seen, and also the metaphysical, the mystical. I draw inspiration from the forms and the forces of nature, but the work is also kind of a language of its own. I don't seek to represent the real world as much as I hope to embody a kind of parallel to that world. The exaggerated scale, saturated color, and artificiality of the material definitely prevent the work from being seen as direct representation. Fundamentally, what I am after is to create art that functions as a kind of poetic equivalent to life around us.
Some definite themes are present in the work - imagery suggestive of raindrops, blood drops, tears. For me, the things symbolized by this imagery such as pain and joy, birth and death, destruction and fertilization, are very potent given the unsettling violence in the world right now. However, these associations are also very personal?I am interested in creating a show that touches on these themes while leaving a wide avenue for each viewers interpretation."
