Bio

“I hope my work shows the relationship and beauty that I see in the passage of time and its effects on the environment around us.”

Working out of her studio in Sonoma County, California, Stephanie Lawrence creates mixed media paintings that reflect a unique form of the urban landscape. Inspired by her frequent visits to major cities throughout the world, the artist recreates the layers of color and texture in city walls, walkways, billboards and graffiti to convey the passage of time and city epochs long past.

Some works touch on the abstract; others reveal a more direct visual connection to place. She begins a piece by thinking about color and composition, then constructs her work in a series of layers using paint, plaster, dried pigments, photos, salvaged paper, and billboards collected over decades. Each layer suggests the next; each subtraction or addition hints at what should follow.

Stephanie received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1966. She also studied at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, the University of Chile, and the Catholic University of Chile, both in Santiago, Chile. She was a founding member of an Artists’ Cooperative in Portland, OR.