Stacy Lynn Waddell
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Stacy Lynn Waddell, light takes time to reach us (installation view), CANDICE MADEY, New York, 2023, various media and dimensions.
Stacy Lynn Waddell | Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture
Stacy Lynn Waddell will deliver the 2024 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Waddell considers the authorship and idealism of art historical narratives and how they correspond to the economic and political structures of their time while highlighting contemporary issues related to visibility, desire, and power.
As the 2024-25 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist, Waddell will complete a week-long residency working alongside students in Island Press, a research-based printmaking workshop at WashU that is committed to creating and publishing innovative prints and multiples, educating students and the broader community about print media, and advancing the printmaking field.
About Stacy Lynn Waddell
Since earning her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Waddell has participated in exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, Pérez Art Museum, Miami and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum among other venues.
Her work is included in several public and private collections that include The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery among others.
Waddell is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Artist-in-Residence at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, QueenSpace in New York and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. During Fall 2022, Waddell ended the year with an exhibit at Sala1 in Rome, Italy and as a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow in Umbria, Italy where she spent six weeks producing works and conducting research in a 15th century castle.
She lives and works in North Carolina.
Stacy Lynn Waddell, THE TWO OF US CROUCHING DOWN WITH HALOS AS HATS (for M. S.), 1973/2021, 60 x 48 inches, composition gold leaf on canvas.
Stacy Lynn Waddell, Untitled #7 (awakening after the Gulf Stream and the Hurricane), 2023, composition gold leaf, variegated metal leaf, silver leaf and Japanese colored silver leaf on handmade cotton/abaca paper with laser etching, 29 inches in diameter.
Stacy Lynn Waddell, A Cross Current and an Oxbow seen from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (for T. M. & T. C.), 2014/1836/2020, 16 inches in diameter, burned handmade paper with blue pencil and composition and variegated gold leaf.
Stacy Lynn Waddell, Untitled #9 (awakening after the Gulf Stream and the Hurricane), 2023, composition gold leaf, variegated metal leaf and Japanese colored silver leaf on handmade cotton/abaca paper with laser etching, 29 inches in diameter.
Stacy Lynn Waddell, YOUNG WOMAN HOLDING A FLOWER (for M. S.), 2022, 48 x 36 inches, 22-karat gold leaf on linen.