KATY STONE
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Stone received her BFA in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking from Iowa State University, and her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington.
She has exhibited at Boise Art Museum; Boston University Art Gallery; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Kansas City Art Institute; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art; Mass Art, Boston; McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio; Missoula Art Museum; Schneider Museum, Ashland; Sun Valley Center, Ketchum; University of Akron; University of Richmond; Washington State Convention Center; and Watcom Museum of Art. Her commissioned public artworks include projects for the GSA's Art in Architecture Program, Washington State Arts Commission, The City of Seattle, Cleveland Clinic, Michigan State University, and corporate clients including ConocoPhillips and Microsoft.
She lives and works in Seattle, WA
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My work explores materiality, phenomena and beauty. I use industrial materials that are light, that call attention to themselves as surfaces. Everything I choose is a thin thing. I paint, cut, and layer these surfaces into constructions that blur the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture. Brimming with dualities, my pieces capture a sense of monumentality and at the same time a feeling of transience.
Organic/synthetic, micro/macro, real/imaginary, moving/still—these opposites coalesce into an expansive wholeness. Everything is itself and something else. Clouds, trees, branches, falls, rays, my recurring natural forms grow, pile-up and spill over, allusions of elemental power and symbols of transformation, of liberation.
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Boise Art Museum
City of Seattle
Cleveland Clinic
Conoco-Phillips Corporation
Columbia University
Cornell Medical College
Facebook
GSA Art in Architecture Program
Iowa State University
King County Library System
McNay Museum
Microsoft
Michigan State University
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Twin Parks, Taichung, Taiwan