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- Full Name
- Tiffany Stevens
- Profile Picture
Self Portrait as reliquary arm of St. Valentine, Gouache on paper 22x30", 2022
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Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts Studios / 540 President Street
Studio #5
- Studio Street Address:
- Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts Studios / 540 President Street
- Studio Street Address Detail
- Studio #5
- Zip Code
- 11215
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- Artist Statement
- TC Stevens is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally trained as a dancer, she moved into writing and photography before finding a painting practice in her 30s. Her motivation to paint is both the universality and odd specificity of the subconscious in all its mystery. She also integrates her training as a certified hypnosis practitioner into the work. She has been trained in an alternative decolonialized femmed-based hypnosis tradition that centers the client, using rest and connection to the imagination for personal empowerment and larger social justice efforts. In her work, she explores parts of self otherwise inaccessible in rational thought. This almost always includes aspects of the natural world and/or mysticism in some form. Color is important in her work to evoke the energy and life force of the imagination. And as a way to provoke emotion. She prefers to work primarily in gouache for its proximity to water and the fluidity it has. Both the ease and difficulty of working with it keep her interested. She also uses acrylics for larger work, particularly interference acrylics that mimic the so called ‘structural color’ found in nature in creatures like hummingbirds and peacocks where the color you ‘see’ is actually microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light. On the surface the work is primarily representational, but it is always a combination of things not actually found in the real world. She often employs a skewed sense of perspective and odd colors to underscore this point.
- Portfolio Images
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Shadow self, Acrylic on wood board, 24x24", 2021 3379 1695505144 Image
Untitled, Gouache and acrylic on paper, 22x30", 2021 3380 1695505375 Image
This is the day your life will surely Lange, Acrylic on canvas panel, 2023 3381 1695505431 Image
New Moon, acrylic and interference acrylic on wood, 24x24", 2022 3382 1695506099 Image
Sonoma-pool cleaner with shadow, Acrylic and gouache on canvas board, 2022 3384 1695506172 Image
Topanga, Acrylic on wood, 24x24", 2023 3386 1695506257 Image
Silverlake cactus, Acrylic on wood, 24x24", 2022 3389 1695506659 Image
Self portrait with Aura, gouache on paper, 22x30", 2018 3390 1695506974 Image
Hello from outer space, gouache on paper, 22x30", 2019 3391 1695507015 Image
Omega institute, acrylic and interference acrylic on wood, 24x24", 2022 3392 1695507049 Image
St. Lucia, Acrylic on wood, 24x24", 2022
- Contact
- poolstudiosnyc@gmail.com
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