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Biography
Stephanie Pryor's paintings explore the line between abstraction and representation, both physically and psychologically. Her "alphabet" is based on animal, nature, and female body imagery, but more importantly it is extremely personal and experiential. Bodies of work, such as portraits and landscapes, begin with a preliminary line drawing that is created from a hybrid of both directly observed human or natural world forms and photographic references.
The final images are developed through a layered and staining painting process, which allows for new shapes and areas to form that aren't necessarily apparent in the original drawing, but come across during a more meditative period of observation.
In Pryor's most recent abstract body of work, she relinquishes any preliminary line drawing and begins with pure stain and color building the painting in an intuitive way, frequently adding paper, micro-glitter and foil to add depth, light and luminosity. The result is an image that is between a 'letting go" and control, creating a complex psychology that is both spontaneous and considered. -
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Born 1971, Great Lakes, IllinoisDownload Pryor CV
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Post-Baccalaureate certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Summer Program, The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, UK
BA, Art and Art history, cum laude, with honors, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Stockholm University and Film house, Stockholm Sweden
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Starlight, Bozomag, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Marine Contemporary, Venice, CA (catalog)
2011
Marine Contemporary, Venice, CA (catalog)
2007
ACME. At Domestic, Los Angeles, CA
2004
CRG, New York, NY
2002
ACME. Los Angeles, CA
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
2001
CRG, New York, NY
Studio Guenzani, Project Room, Milan, Italy
2000
ACME. Los Angeles, CA
UCLA MFA Show, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Billboards of Anxiety, Sackler Gallery, Stamford Center for the Arts (in affiliation with Cavalier Galleries) Stamford, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Leucadia, Oolong Gallery, Encinitas, CA
2023
Untitled Bozo Marfa Project, Marfa, TX
2022
A Loop, Triangle, Trapezoid, BOZOMAG, Los Angeles and Pasadena, CA
2020
So Far, La Loma Projects, Pasadena, CA
Body Manipulated, Bozomag, Los Angeles, CA
2019
GIFC at 0.0la Los Angeles, CA
OPAF (Other Places Art Fair) with The Barker Hangrrr, San Pedro, CA
Dream House vs. Punk House and Cat House, Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA
2018
Mythopoetic, curated by Peter Wowkowych, China Town, Los Angeles, CA
Shadow as Witness, curated by Erika Hirugami, Sante Fe Building, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)
Woman Show, Fab Factory Music Studios, North Hollywood, CA
2017
Lift Off, Rio Hondo College, curated by Robert Miller, Whittier, CA
ArthouseLA, curated by Jacquie Israel, Pacific Palisades, CA
2014
NSFW, Richard Heller Gallery, curated by Barry Belkin, Santa Monica, CA
2012
About Face, ACME. Los Angeles, CA
2011
Metallic, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
CHAIN LETTER, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Marine Salon No. 5, Santa Monica, CA (catalog)
2009
Curator's Choice Recent Acquisitions from MMoCA's Collection. Madison, WI
2008
Scene/Seen Recent Acquisitions from the Luckman Fine Arts Permanent Collection 1979-2006, Cal state, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Contemporary Cool and Collected, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
2006
PLEX, curated by Noel Korten, Brewery Art Complex, Los Angeles, CA
2004
The Raw and the Cooked, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Center for the Arts, CA
2003
Works on Paper Gallery artists and by invitation, CRG New York, NY
2002
21 Paintings from LA, Curated by James Gobel, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, Cal State San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA (catalog)
Dialogue on Painting, Part 1, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Drive-By, Curated by Katie Brennan, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Officina America, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalog)
Panorama, Curated by Carmen Zita, Room Interior Products, New York, NY
2001
Studio International, Paintings from the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece (catalog)
Cal's Art, Sampling California Painting, UNT Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Curator's Choice, David Pagel, Los Angeles: The Dreams Stuff is Made of, Frankfurt art, Frankfurt, Germany
The Sensational Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
Haulin' Ass Pierogi in LA, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2000
New School, works on paper, inc., Los Angeles, CA
1999
Painting: Fore and Aft, ACME. Los Angeles, CA
Sig-Alert, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Inaugural Exhibition, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Limits, The Dollhouse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998
$99 Show, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Across the Lines, Queen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Mirror, Mirror, Current Reflections on Self Portraiture, Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SMFA Dana Pond Painting Competition, Finalist, Boston, MA
1994
Holiday Exhibition, E3 Gallery, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
Wood, Eve "Pick of the Week," Artillery, March 16, 2016
Nys Dambrot, Shana "Stephanie Pryor: Reverie," Fabrik-Issue 31, Page 87-88
2014
Juxtapoz.com, "'NFSW' Curated by Barry Belkin @ Richard Heller Gallery, (featured painting) LA Jul 18, 2014
2013
Wood, Eve "Pick of the Week" Artillery, September 15
Spaulding, Trevor "12 Cool Paintings From this Fall in L.A.", paintinginla.com, October
2012
Nys Dambrot, Shana, "Stephanie Pryor: 'Domina' at Marine Contemporary" Art Ltd. January
Nys Dambrot, Shana, "Art Trekking with the Berlin Collective" KCET Artbound, December 5
2011
Mohseni, Yasmine "Beyond the White Cube: Painter Stephanie Pryor in the Studio, October
Modern Painters, "The Best 100 Fall Art Shows: Stephanie Pryor: Domina"
2007
Pagel, David, "Taking a Dark Turn During Dark Times", Los Angeles Times, Special to the Times, Friday, February 16
2004
Milaguet, Aude, "Stephanie Pryor: How to Deal with Wild Animals and Classical Artists." NYArts Magazine May/June Issue
Sholis, Brian, "Stephanie Pryor," Artforum.com, April
Greben, Diedre, "Ex Abs" Art News
2002
Zita, Carmen. "Stephanie Pryor" Trace, Issue 36 p. 62
2001
Bayliss, Sarah. "Best Bets," Art News, summer 2001, p.151
Carotenuto, Gianna. Art Issues, January/ February, p.41
2000
Ollman, Leah. Los Angeles Times, Special to the Times, Friday, Dec 8
AWARDS
2011
CCI ARC Grant (Formerly know as the Durfee ARC Grant)
2000
D'arcy Hayman Scholarship for Painting/Drawing
1999
Feitelson Art Foundation Scholarship
1998
UCLA Art Council Grant
D'arcy Hayman Scholarship for Painting/Drawing
1993
Gary M.Hoffer Award for Excellence in Photography, Colgate University
Liquitex Painting Award
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2014
Women's Painters West, Los Angeles
2009
Chapman University, Micol Hebron moderator
2008
LA Art Show with David Pagel moderator
2004
Otis College of Art and Design
2002
University of California, Santa Barbara
RESIDENCE
1996
Vermont Studio Center, artist colony residence
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
UCLA Medical Center
Cedars Sinai, Beverly Hills, CA
Stuart House-The Rape Foundation, Santa Monica
California Foundation for the Arts
Luckman Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles
MOCA Madison, WI
Deutsche Bank Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Progressive Insurance; Cleveland, OH
SELECTED ART FAIRS AND AUCTIONS
Art Platform, Los Angeles, CA
Frieze, London
The Armory Show, New York, NY
ARCO Madrid, Spain
LACE
2 x 2 Dallas (printed catalog)
Incognito
Pasadena Art Alliance
Art of Elysium (printed catalog)
GEM LAAA gallery 825
Fresh Start
