Eliza Stamps
Artist Works
30 x 22 inches ink on paper
Artist Bio
Eliza Stamps earned her BA at Bates College, Lewiston, ME and her MFA at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Brooklyn and New York, NY including:
Exhibitions
2008
Being and Nothingness, Petra Projects at Mehr Gallery, NY, NY
Intertwine, Sam Quinn Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Serial Mediations, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY
2007
“Visual Noise,” UMC Art Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
“On Your Mark: Contemporary Drawing,” Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
“Introducing...”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
“Works of Art on Paper,” Long Beach Foundation for Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
"31st Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition," Smithtown Arts Council, St. James, NY
"orderline," Petra Projects at Mehr Gallery, New York, NY
2006
“Small Works Show,” 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Real Property,” Gallery on Dean, Brooklyn, NY
“Holonomy,” Pratt Studios Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
“Pratt in Tuscany,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
“Hey Moxie,” 210 Gallery, New York, NY
“210 Forsyth, 12 women,” 210 Gallery, New York, NY
“Found Wanting,” Gallery MC, New York, NY
2004
“MFA First Year Show,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
“Small Works Show,” AIR Gallery, New York, NY
“Fourteenth Street Painters Annual Exhibition,” New York, NY
2003
“Eliza Stamps-Recent Work,” Anatomy, New York, NY
“Fourteenth Street Painters Annual Exhibition,” New York, NY
Slide Registries
The Viewing Program, the Drawing Center, New York, NY
Eliza is an art educator currently working in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan middle schools integrating visual arts into curricula ranging from ESL to Social Studies
2007 Summer Show
Introducing...
Artist Statement
The concept of holonomy is that of whole-parts. On a microscopic level, a cell is a whole complete in itself, while simultaneously a part of a much larger entity. Similarly, the Earth us a complete whole within a vastly larger one, our solar system, which is part of an even grander one, our universe. This work is meant to reflect this phenomenon and how these forms and patterns relate to one another. The drawings represent tangible structures as well as abstract conceptual patterns and ideas-the passage of people or animals through space, the movement of cells through the body, the transition of emotions through the psyche. When broken down to their most basic structures, these forms are often analogous.
Although this idea is abstract, its truth is measurable in the fields of mathematics and quantum physics, which offer much quantifiable data in support. While this reality is important to the work, the drawings are not meant to be laboratory evidence. Rather, I would like to create work that takes on the form of a multiplicity of things, while being, at its core, an artistic exercise in shape and composition. This work is meant to give some order to that often chaotic and enigmatic project of existence.
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www.elizastamps.com