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In Stacie Chappell’s most recent work, she explores spatial movement of color and form as metaphor for states of being, or a frame of mind. The work expresses expansiveness, confinement, balance, imbalance and transitioning as visual poetics of space. Stacie titled the show, “Vulnerable Spaces”, to address the depth, method and process involved in intuitive painting. Her work is best described as expressionism that incorporates lyrical abstraction.
Stacie uses a variety of acrylics, inks, fabric paints, and blotting of paint with paper towels, to integrate form, color and pattern. “The various types of paint media and surface treatments I use react differently, ultimately pushing the element of surprise as form and space develops.”
Stacie draws upon life experience as her main artistic influence; a time, mood or memory. Her paintings incorporate intuitive mark-making, and are celebrated for their energy and color. “When viewing my artwork, I want the viewer to have a perceptual and sensory experience. The pieces speak to ethereal landscapes or narratives addressing an emotive feeling.”
Stacie Chappell’s works can be found in many collections both private and corporate, and is displayed at galleries in Seattle, Kansas City and Chicago.
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Representation
Marni Muir Gallery, Seattle Washington
Blue Gallery, Kansas City Missouri
Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL
Reviews
2005, Boise Weekly, Boise Idaho
Review of Projekt Locqa- Ambassadors to Idaho
Review of "Collections", Hemingway Art Center, Boise State University
2000 The Sandpaper, Surf City , New Jersey
Review of Long Beach Foundation of Arts and Sciences Exhibition
1999 The Kansas City Star - Kansas City, Missouri
Review of Photographic Prints: Painting and Drawing with Light
Massman Gallery, Rockhurst College - September 1999
"Stacie Chappell shows the result of an artist's balancing of spontaneous intuition and reflective ordering. It is her investigative and experimental approach that is the key to her works success - "This work stands somewhere between a scientific blueprint and a childlike doodle." The Kansas City Star, 9/10/99
1997 Times Union, Review of Pattern Works - Troy, New York
Rennesselear County Center for the Arts - December 1997
"Perhaps her deeper commitment is what makes her work succeed with such conviction, for these are fairly ethereal works." Times Union, Albany, New York, 12/1997
1992 Kansas City Star - Kansas City, Missouri
Review of In Site Exhibition, 11/1992
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