Original Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Stephanie Massaux is a New York City based artist whose paintings incorporate a variety of textures, colors, and diverse layers, which alternate consecutive, conscious, deliberate, and unpredictable interventions. Her paintings develop intuitively, are visually organized, and appeal to the tactile dimension of perception.
Experimentation is at the core of her artistic practice. She pushes the boundaries of traditional oil painting techniques, seeking new ways to express her vision and engage with the materials. Through the exploration of color, texture, and complex layering processes utilizing oil paint and cold wax, Massaux opens herself up to unexpected outcomes and exciting discoveries. Each layer holds traces of the artistic process, revealing the history and evolution of the piece.
Massaux’s poetic palettes and innovative surface treatments often borrow from the beauty of aged surfaces, weathering, and abrasions left visible by the scouring of time.
She draws inspiration from the conscious and unconscious mind, the urban environment in which she resides.
The abstract space that emerges from her practice suggests reminiscences and deliberate quotations from American historical abstraction, which she revisits in the blurred, vacillating, and elusive light of our modernity.
Massaux studied fine art at Purchase College and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Her work is in private collections in the US, UK, and Japan and has been featured in Elle Decor.
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