ARTIST STATEMENT
 I studied at the Otis Art Institute / Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles and received my BFA in sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri.  I currently live in Los Angeles.

My art has evolved from a time in my childhood when I played in the woods along the Wabash River in Indiana.  With my sister’s help I constructed a series of stick forts, lean-to’s, and hideaways.  We created dramatic imaginary tableaux – clashes on horseback, sharpened stick battles, peacetime trading posts – and used yellow creek pebbles as money. 

I strive to create the objects that would have filled my life if I could have stayed in that imaginary world of childhood.  I try to build in the simplest manner, using as little technology as possible.  In the process, I am still trying to elevate these found objects to an ordered, ordained, and iconic status.  This transformation of the ‘mundane’ to the ‘aesthetic’ is fundamental to understanding these pieces. 

 Within these structures and collages, I look to find a balance between the tribal or primitive and the man-made or technological, and perhaps between the spiritual and the intellectual.  I create spaces to reflect and consider.

The collages are reflections of over-stimulus, an all-over explosion to the senses of the too much, too fast media.  Responding to the overload of visual information, I recombine the iconic images from common magazines in a rhythmic way that makes more sense to me, creating a unique recycled object from a mass-produced image.
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  EDUCATION

Kansas City Art Institute, KC, MO
BFA - Sculpture

Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Dean’s List - Ceramics/Fine Arts

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Commercial Design

Mrs. Stone is available for private and small group tutoring sessions in the L.A. area.

Contact

She is available for tutoring in the  L.A. Area