BIO | CV
ABOUT STACEY
Stacey Warnix is an American lyrical abstraction painter who uses gestural methods to render large-scale, non-representational paintings over raw textile. Her paintings explore the experiential affect of nuanced color and scale, using layers of disparate translucency and contrasting textures to subtly shift the perception, light reflectivity, and luminosity of her landscape-inspired color fields.
Introduced to representational oil painting by an artist grandmother, Stacey created paintings and collages throughout her school years, winning frequent awards, but ultimately pursued a professional career in law and finance. She lived and worked professionally in California and London before moving to Texas, where she started painting again.
Stacey experimented with gestural abstraction and became enamored with the process as a meditative escape. Today, she paints to escape a world of precision, finding respite in abstract forms, textures, and tones. Stacey’s paintings feature nuanced layers of mixed media pigments interspersed with collage. Her extensive years in residence along the California coastline made an indelible impression and that influence shows throughout her body of work, with marked visual references to time-worn, hazy memories of light-filled coastal vistas.
ABOUT HER PROCESS
As a lyrical abstraction painter, Stacey’s paintings emphasize experiential, nuanced color over composition. Contrasting moments of positive versus negative space, layered translucence, light reflectivity, and luminosity are recurring elements in her organic color field displays.
Finding respite in abstracted forms, textures, and tones, Stacey pulls from a distorted memory bank of places observed during extensive travels. She allows happenstance and intuitive gestural marks to shape compositions that evoke impressions of deconstructed landscapes or loosely splayed flowers: “Visually, I tend to notice floral patterns in distant horizons, and I have allowed this phenomenon to find its way into my imagery.”
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
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Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 49 (Published May 2022)
Best of 12 Years of Saatchi Art (August 2022)
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 50 (Published September 2022)
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Art Folio, Second Edition (Published June 2021)
Spotlight Artist Award — Red Dot Miami (Miami Art Week, December 2021)
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Top 20 Artworks — The Other Art Fair Dallas Online Studios on Saatchi Art
EXHIBITION HiSTORY
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Feb 3 — Artist Presentation — The Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth, Florida, USA
May 16-19 — Affordable Art Fair Austin — Palmer Events Center, Austin, Texas, USA
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Jul 14-Oct 30 — Summer Show — Wolf Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
Mar 9-30 — Women in the Forefront — The Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth, Florida, USA
Feb 24 — I (Heart) Austin: An Art Experience — Music Hill Ranch, Austin, Texas, USA
Feb 16-21 — The Palm Beach Show — Palm Beach County Convention Center, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Feb 3-Apr 30 — Winter Show Invitational — Music Hill Ranch, Austin, Texas, USA
Jan 25-29 — Art Palm Beach — Palm Beach County Convention Center, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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Nov 29-Dec 4 — Context Art Miami — One Herald Plaza, Miami, Florida, USA
July 1- Aug 31— Love and Light Exhibition — Art Gallery Pure, Plano, Texas, USA
May 12-15 — The Other Art Fair Dallas — Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, Texas, USA
April-May — Peaceful Earth Exhibition — Art Gallery Pure, Plano, Texas, USA
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Dec 1-5 — Red Dot Miami — Mana Wynwood Convention Center, Miami, FL, USA
Nov 8-29 — The Other Art Fair Global Virtual Edition
Oct 24-27 — The Other Art Fair Dallas — Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX, USA
Sept 23-26 — The Other Art Fair Los Angeles — Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California, USA
Jun - Dec 31 — Music Hill Ranch — Austin, Texas, USA
May 29 - Sept 6 — NO˚R+H Gallery — Salida, Colorado, USA
Mar 30 - Apr 4 — The Other Art Fair Virtual Edition
Jan 21 — Bridges Art + Heart Show — Dallas, Texas, USA
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Fall 2020 — The Other Art Fair Dallas Online Studios on Saatchi Art
Summer 2020 — The Other Art Fair Dallas Online Studios on Saatchi Art
May 2020 — The Other Art Fair Dallas (postponed)
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Sept 2019 — The Other Art Fair Dallas — Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, Texas, USA
