Stephanie Meredith
Pangs of Glory, Acrylic, Graphite, and Crayon on Paper, 35" X 35", 2018.
Stephanie Meredith works and lives in Southern California. She has exhibited her work nationally and her work has appeared in New American Painting. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and is an adjunct professor at various colleges in Southern California.
My recent works on paper are in a liminal space between drawing and painting. These mixed media paintings grapple with memory, personal history, and perception. Throughout the work, I intertwine references to my personal and ancestral history hinting at a larger narrative.
This narrative is dependent on our perception's connection to a delicate thread of cause and effect, which forms our history and colors our present. With a play between depth and flatness, the space I create acts as a convergence of abstraction and place, both interior and exterior: still life, landscape, and figurative. The saccharin romanticism of time and place is counterbalanced with a self-indulgent curiosity that my paintings utilize in clumsy compositions and awkward colors. It is an attempt to make the unworkable work. Like a nervous laugh in a tense situation, these elements create a humorous gesture alongside the elegant and moody.
