About the Artist:

Over the past few years, Stacie Uhinck's paintings have generated a following in Northern California and Chicago. Her work is currently hanging in both corporate and private collections in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. Her exhibitions have included group shows at the Independent Community Arts Network (ICAN Gallery), the Chicago Art Source (CAS Gallery) in 2005 and 2006, as well as a solo exhibition at the Lucid Gallery in San Francisco (2005).

Inspired by the connectedness of all beings, and the texture and movement of memory (both cellular and cognitive), Stacie's paintings refer to messages from the past, yet are solidly embroiled in the present. Her ability to combine modern style and vibrant color with primitive techniques is what draws people to her work. The depth and layering of color and texture will move your eye not only across the painting, but through it.

Her creative journey began New York City where she studied painting and communications design. Throughout the years she has traveled extensively and upon arriving in San Francisco, she produced numerous works over a two year period. Stacie continues to evolve as an artist and has a studio in downtown Phoenix, where she has temporarily relocated. Stacie Uhinck was born in Akron, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in New York in 1990.

Artist Statement:

I approach my work wholly by informed intuition and without a premeditated composition. As I paint, paths present themselves and I move forward…layering, scraping, and scratching the surface as it builds upon itself. When first viewing these finished works, different areas of color or texture have an immediate impact, like a foreground, while the rest reveals itself each time you take a fresh look. In truth, several paintings materialize on the surface and are eventually covered by the ones you see before you.

The evidence of another work is readily apparent (a previous generation, if you will) so that a visual history is formed. Similar markings are found in each of the layers as the patterns of the works’ history are repeated and subsequently covered. As a result, these works are based on memory, the quality of memory…its texture, patterns, movement, and color. Memory is not limited to our thoughts, but pulses through us as our cells regenerate. It is visceral and fleeting, and continues to absorb itself and morph into yet another layer of flesh or thought.

The scratches on the surface of the paintings may serve as a reminder that we are not our faces, names, organizations, possessions, religions, or schools of thought. We share a particularly primitive history and are all connected as descendants of the energy and memory of creation.