Stacey Warnix
is an American lyrical abstraction painter who uses gestural methods to create large-scale, color-forward paintings. Her practice explores the experiential affect of nuanced color and scale, employing disparate materials and dimensional layering to subtly shift the perception, light reflectivity, and luminosity of gestural fields of color.
Introduced young to representational oil painting by an artist grandmother, Stacey was an active creator through her formative years, but ultimately pursued a career in law and finance, working 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, finding respite in abstract forms, textures, and tones. She builds color with extensive layering of transparent washes which intersect to yield nuanced color and nonfigurative form. Her palette selections reference time-worn, hazy memories of light-filled vistas along the California coastline, Europe, and the Texas Hill Country – the places that shaped her.
PROCESS
As an established, mid-market lyrical abstraction painter, Stacey works in a style that surrenders control to gravitational applications and imprecise, intuitive mark making, wherein she prioritizes a nuanced color experience over composition. As a lyrical abstractionist, Stacey creates large-scale, color-forward paintings, building atmosphere and emotional resonance through fluid gestures, intuitive marks, and layered fields of color and light. Working mainly across gestural abstraction, but also color field and assemblage, her practice leverages the experiential affect of nuanced color and immersive scale.
Following an impromptu return to painting in 2017, Stacey became enamored with the process of action painting as a meditative escape and the respite she experienced in abstract forms, textures, and tones. Rather than depicting specific places, her paintings evoke the emotional, hazy residue of remembered spaces — a nostalgic feeling of familiarity that defies clear recollection. Working from an intersection of memory and emotion, Stacey's work invites others to share in moments of pause, reflection, and quiet emotional connection.
Color serves as emotional language and therapeutic gesture throughout her work. Her paintings always begin with a singular “color experience” intention and rely on tonal atmospheres to contribute nuanced spaces for visual respite. Stacey embraces a wide range of media, utilizing disparate materials and dimensional layering to subtly shift the perception, light reflectivity, and luminosity of the color experience.