Stacy Howe
Stacy Howe is an artist born in Massachusetts and currently residing in Maine in the U.S. Having grown up near forests and rocky coasts she has always had an intense curiosity and reverence for the seasonal cycles, the language of fungi, and magic of decay as it births new life. Many of her drawings draw from a Victorian era perspective of spiritualism, memento mori, and the drive towards death.
“I am an artist that creates sanguinary assemblages on paper. Using extremes of beauty, horror, and the commonplace I work to make these themes compatible if not interchangeable. I render objects of material excess and polite society while tracing their links to barbarism and how we socially construct nature through etiquette.
Through a process of Surrealist inspired automatism I have come to produce a series of assemblages. Surrealist notions
of dream imagery, games of chance, and the marriage of contraries are employed to meld incongruous forms which are then harmonized through ornamentation.
Images are rendered compulsively and juxtaposed with immediacy. The object is not to think but to purge. “