Stacey Nadine Malysh was born in Vernon, BC in 1974 and completed her BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. From 2000 to 2004, Stacey was the owner of Gallery 83 in Vancouver, BC. She was the Western Canada finalist selected to participate in le 19e Symposium International de la Nouvelle Peinture au Canada (International New Painting Symposium of Canada) in Baie-St-Paul, Quebec. Her works have appeared in publications such a Vancouver Fashion and Vie des Arts magazine, as well as being included in two documentaries, "La Peinture: Majeste de Baie-Saint-Paul,” and “Why We Write: Poets of Vernon.” Her paintings are held in private collections in Canada and the United States.
Statement
My work contains ideas about mortality, memory and the passage of time. Like the 16th and 17th century Dutch vanitas paintings, my paintings are meditations on the beauty and brevity of life, encapsulated by the Latin phrase “memento mori.” My pieces are also the repository for my interests in art history, language, science fiction, spirituality, writing, pop culture and science. I am equally fascinated by the romantic tradition and methods of painting and of the technological era of today; my use of binary code in many of my paintings is to reference this digital matrix in which we now live. My artwork is representational, but I am not aiming for an exact rendering, nor am I interested in a clear narrative. A painting can be an object of contemplation and response and my intention is to engage the viewer in an ephemeral experience. Much of my work starts from a found photograph, a video still or an image from art history. In some cases, I am re-contextualizing specific images; in other instances, I may be appropriating snippets – such as a Baldessari dot, a current hashtag, or a Mondrian grid - to weave a different dialogue within an historical genre.
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