Original Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Stephanie Massaux is a New York City based artist whose paintings incorporate a variety of textures, colors, and diverse layers, which alternate consecutive, conscious, deliberate, and unpredictable interventions. Her paintings develop intuitively, are visually organized, and appeal to the tactile dimension of perception.
The material of her work is obtained primarily by the use and subtle mixture of highly pigmented oil paint and cold wax. This medium allows her paintings to evolve through complex processes of superimposition, using additive and subtractive techniques throughout their creation, and results in a velvety matte, textural, color-saturated surface. The stable substrate supports her expressive mark-making and the diverse stratification.
Massaux’s poetic palettes and innovative surface treatments often borrow from the beauty of aged surfaces, weathering, and abrasions left visible by the scouring of time.
She draws inspiration from the conscious and unconscious mind, the urban environment in which she resides.
The abstract space that emerges from her practice suggests reminiscences and deliberate quotations from American historical abstraction, which she revisits in the blurred, vacillating, and elusive light of our modernity.
Massaux studied fine art at Purchase College and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Her work is in private collections in the US, UK, and Japan.
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