Contributing Artists

Stephanie Swartz and Stephanie Campos

Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS/SITE Archives:

 The work of these two artists, Stephanie Campos and Stephanie Swartz, attempts to engage the viewer in a dialect that is both personal and narrative. Metaphors are employed to diagram the artists’ concepts and ideas. Stephanie Swartz’s giant flowers painted directly onto the wall set up a context for her more personal ‘pictures’ to arise from within. Each picture or portrait embodied in the artificial floral suggests an aspect of her immediate realm of consciousness and conflict. That the pictures are painted in the context of giant boisterous florals implies that this world is, at least pictorally, filled with duality and friction. Stephanie Campos’ work uses written and pictoral  languages to incite a dialogue about the function of art, and the manifestations of paranoiac fears. “Investigations of Painterly Paranoiacs/The Portrait as means for understanding states of mentality” sets out to reveal that art can be a saving grace and a means of interpreting personal experience through portraiture.