Audrey Stone
Artist Statement:
When observing shifting color and light in nature, I find myself paradoxically experiencing both excitement and calm. I seek to bring that dynamic opposition into my work.
To create images that are simultaneously stimulating and serene, I employ subtle gradients of color in bands of varied widths. The color shifts become a sensory experience: I feel them in my body as vibrations.
As I create the gradients, I’m always thinking of visual pacing and rhythm: one color builds until it reaches the point where it feels fulfilled and another color is ready to be introduced. Although the pacing of the gradients requires measurement and mapping, I also make more intuitive choices as I work, turning every painting into a dance of the planned and unplanned.
That dance extends to the composition of my diptychs and multi-panel paintings. I often employ symmetry and reflection both within and between panels, but the finished works lend themselves to multiple compositional arrangements, some planned and others entirely unanticipated. Allowing for this element of chance is part of my ongoing internal dialogue about the concepts of control and expectation, both in my work and beyond.
Artist Biography:
Audrey Stone received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Pratt Institute, both in painting. She studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was selected for the Artist in The Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2023 she had a residency at the Surf Point Foundation in York, Maine.
Her work has been exhibited across the United States, as well as in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, England, France, Japan and South Korea. Recent solo exhibitions include Winston Wachter Seattle, WA; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; and Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT.
Her work is in the collections of the Amateras Foundation, Charles Schwab Print Program, Cleveland Clinic, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley, NYU Langone, and New York Presbeterian Hospital.
Stone is a member of American Abstract Artists. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
AAA:
Member Since: 2023
