Stephanie Scanlon

Artist Statement

As a printmaker, I explore colors and sensory experience through visual observations in my daily life. Each abstract print is inspired by a moment of visual recognition involving the arrangement and placement of objects, materials, and architectural surfaces, and the way light highlights and shapes those forms. I am attuned to the saturation of color involving observed shapes and forms, and often pause to visually comprehend how objects, materials, and surfaces create abstract compositions – which I then render as printed images. 
 
The titles I give my works are also springboards into the images I create. For example, something as simple as plants at a gas station was impactful enough for its own piece. The print, Gas Station Plants takes the viewer through the light and hues I was seeing at that moment in time. These titles are playful and humorous which relates to the emotions of color in these abstract prints.
 
I often work with a limited color palette that is sampled from my visual observations of a particular arrangement and setting. My colors are sampled from my memory and photographs of my visual observations. This allows me to work with abstracted forms that are sourced from a particular moment in time, making connections between the way visual elements exist and the time of day they were observed. 
 

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