| Artist: Phyllis Stapler Title: Spotted Pony Size: 16" x 20"
Medium: Acrylic and Oil Presentation: Gold metal leaf wide wood frame
Description: Acrylic painting on masonite panel with oil varnish in slightly distressed gold metal leaf "plein air" style.
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Artist Information
| Website: | www.phyllisstapler.com
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| | Biography: | Phyllis Stapler's recent paintings have focused on endangered or extinct species including Tasmanian Tigers, fossas, polar bears and wooly mammoths. Always a champion of the underdog, she places her subjects in a monochromatic negative space to represent a protective force field around them. Albuquerque Tribune reviewer T.D. Mobley Martinez described her painting of a missing dog as "floating in a Dijon nowhere. Using an iconographic imagery and arrangement you might see in Eastern art, this work hints at a range of social and emotional issues from the disposable nature of nature to the yearning to be loved". Her activism for animal welfare has informed her work with an intensity recognized by curators, reviewers and collectors alike. Upon moving to the Southwest from Georgia in 1996, her work was selected for New American Paintings by Jeffrey Weiss of the National Museum of Art. Michael Klein recently included her work in the upcoming edition of Studio Visit Magazine due out Spring of 2009. Jurors who have selected her work for exhibitions include Lucy Lippard, Hamza Walker, Lisa Sette, Susan Fisher Sterling, Jan Ernst Adlmann and Gwen Chanzit . Terrance Lindall exhibited her work in the Paradise Lost show at the WAH Center in Brooklyn. And her work also traveled to Seoul, Korea in the Circular Exhibit at Hun Gallery in Chelsea in 2008. She currently resides in the Four Corners region.
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The mystery and wildness of animals is the inspiration for my work. Plant, animal forms and background shapes interlock creating compositional as well as emotional tension. Often arrangements of repeating shapes can be found in both the positive and negative spaces. Through content and these formal elements I hope to represent the interrelatedness of nature and life. I identify with the survival instincts of my subjects, and with their vulnerability. In my need for serenity I create a safe place for them. While maintaining respect for the cycles of the natural world, the instinct to keep the wolf away from the door prevails. |
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| | Exhibitions: | Recent Exhibitions: Ellis Crane Gallery, Durango, CO, 2005 The Arvada Center, Arvada, CO, "Sheltered", 2005 Red Canyon Gallery, Durango, CO, 1999/2000 Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX, "Un/Familiar", 1999 Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC, "Lost Sheep", 1998 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, "No More Sacrifices", 1997 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, "Animalism: The Nature of the Beast", 1995 GROUP EXHIBITS Juried Exhibitions Hun Gallery, New York, NY, The Circular Exhibition/New York & Seoul, 2008 Ho Gallery, Seoul, Korea, The Circular Exhibition/New York & Seoul, 2008 Juror: Ji hun Lee Williamsburg Center for the Arts and Humanities, Brooklyn, NY, "Paradise Lost", 2008 juror:Terrance Lindall Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, "Rocky Mountain Biennial" |
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| | Awards: | Acclaimed Artist series, AIPP, NM, finalist 2011-2012 The Artists Fellowship, Grant 2011 Honorable Mention, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, 2004 Juror, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, 2004 and 2010 Best in Show, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO, 2003 Jury's Choice Award, Albuquerque Museum of Art, 1999 Arts Education Review Board, Georgia Council for the Arts, 1996 Residency, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA, 1995 Advisory Board, Arts Festival of Atlanta, 1994-96 Juror's Merit Award, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 1994 Juror's Merit Award, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, Lagrange, GA, 1992 Artist in Residence, Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, GA, 1992-95 |
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| Education:
| Georgia State University, post graduate work in film animation 1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts, drawing and painting University of Georgia, Athens 1977 Georgia Southern University 1973-1975 |
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