|
|
 |
| STATEMENT |
|
|
My center of gravity has always been transpersonal spirituality--an experiential, trans-religious theism which allows me to find and communicate an inner peace that transcends physical boundaries. It is a process which must be grasped in practice, intuitively; to acquire a merely theoretical understanding of mystical spirituality is to miss the entire point of it.
When I make a painting, I am not merely depicting an image, but creating an object with a cohesive, palpable energy field that affects the viewer on a visceral level, as well as a visual and intellectual one. The aesthetic goal is to directly communicate a transcendent experience, as opposed to simply illustrating an intellectual postulate. |
|
|
| BIOGRAPHY |
|
|
Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Stephanie Lee Jackson trained as a classical dancer and pianist from the ages of five to seventeen. At the University of Texas at Austin she majored in Plan II, an interdisciplinary honors program, concentrating in studio art and creative writing. Her thesis was a book of original poetry, supervised by poets Dr. Thomas Whitbread and Pattiann Rogers.
She obtained her BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. While living in San Francisco she co-founded Three Muses Artspace in the Mission, exhibited extensively at alternative and interdisciplinary artspaces, and performed as a spoken-word poet and essayist at Alan Kaufman's Wordland, Lighthouse for the Blind, KUSF radio, Sister Spit, the Elbo Room and San Francisco Public Library.
She lived for three years in Guanajuato, Mexico, pushing her artistic and spiritual growth in unexpected directions with the assistance of an international community of artists, musicians, writers and composers. In 2002 she moved to New York City, founding and directing Healing Arts gallery and healing space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Currently she lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, supporting herself as a freelance bodyworker, and painting full-time. She maintains two blogs, The Brooklyn Days and Pretty Lady, where she explores issues of art, healing, and transpersonal spirituality in a myriad of puckish and unexpected ways. |
|
|
| EDUCATION |
|
|
B.A. (Plan II, Studio Art), University of Texas at Austin, 1989
B.F.A. (Painting), San Francisco Art Institute, 1993
Certified Massage Therapist and Health Educator, National Holistic Institute, Emeryville, CA, 1998 |
|
|
| REPRESENTATION |
|
|
| www.stephart.com |
|
|
| SOLO EXHIBITS |
|
|
Selected solo exhibits:
Thos. Moser, New York, New York, 2005
Healing Arts, Brooklyn, New York, 2003
Vircon, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2001
Alpine Art Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, 2000
Ridglea Performance Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, 1999
Gallery at Dancer's Group, San Francisco, CA 1996
ODC Performance Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996
Four Quartets, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996
|
|
|
| GROUP EXHIBITS |
|
|
Selected Group Exhibits:
The Blogger Show, Agni Gallery and Diggging Pitt Gallery, New York, NY and Pittsburgh, PA, 2007
Emerge, Gen Art SF, San Francisco, CA 1999
Love Letters, Gallery at Dancer's Group, San Francisco, CA 1997
Adobe Bookstore Gallery (with Kim Halley,) San Francisco, CA 1993
500 Years of Resistance, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 1992
Three Muses Artspace, San Francisco, CA 1992 |
|
|
| ARTICLES |
|
|
Featured Artist, Convergence Journal, Summer 1994
(www.convergence-journal.com)
Featured Artist, Artsweet.com, October 2008 |
|
|
| OTHER INFO |
|
|
Blogs:
The Brooklyn Days, brooklyndays.blogspot.com
Pretty Lady, ohprettylady.blogspot.com |
|
|
|
|
|
