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February 2019
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Stephanie Garon  

Artist Statement
As a five year old, I tagged along with my father to "hamfests,” radio operator gatherings held in county fair parking lots. Cars would line the grass with their trunks open like overflowing treasure chests filled with electronic wares: old radio boxes, computer boards, cables, monitors, soldering irons. It was an oasis in the heart of wooded valleys. 
My father would sell or trade items he no longer needed. My job was to display them on a tattered, orange-flowered blanket and haggle to make the sale. The setup became my stage as I pranced about, reorganizing after each barter session. In my mind's eye, we were a traveling show and I was the star with dirty nails, pigtails and suspenders. 
Years later, when I find myself welding and smelling the rusty steel odor of the studio, I am driving down those dusty roads with my father again. My work explores the limits of nature and connection. I use chemistry to manipulate materials to personify nature, feminism and contradiction. Alchemy meets allegory in twisted visions of dynamic forms that change over time. Delicate water from melted snow mixed with cement, ethereal honey interwoven with cold steel, crusted saltwater from ceramic shells transform into a visual language filled with metaphors. The decomposition captures resulting paradoxes, including: formalism and fragility, permanence and impermanence, and nature and nurture. 
My art reflects the dichotomy of weaknesses and strengths within our selves and the environmental world around us, Like the items I’d curate at the hamfests, my art embraces the delicacy of juxtaposing and experimenting with transforming materials to define my visual voice.   
 


Heirloom Sycamore, cement mixed from melted snow 36x52x24 $4000
Eve Clay, pine 24x18x12 $1000
Chime Steel, acrylic, glue 36x36x8 (adjustable: may be hung in the round) $1600
760 torr Whittled wood from NASA’s Moon Tree (seeds taken to the moon by Apollo) 14x14x3 NFS
Chibok Steel, oak 36x92x36 $3000
Fortune Steel, cabernet sauvignon 36x48x2 $1800
Fortune II Charcoal on linen 48x60 $400
Behold II Oil, charcoal 24x36 $400
Hematite Oil, charcoal 24x36 $400
Undercurrent Oil, charcoal 24x36 $400
Coarse Oil, charcoal 24x36 $400
Scar Beeswax, rope, charcoal 24x36x10 $1800

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Stephanie Garon received dual science degrees from Cornell University, then attended Maryland Institute College of Art. Her alchemy driven abstract expressionist sculptures and installations have been exhibited internationally in London, Columbia, and South Korea, as well as across the United States. She teaches at MICA, the Walters Art Museum, and Howard County Public Schools. 

​For inquiries contact the artists directly:
garonstudio@gmail.com 
www.garonstudio.com

https://www.facebook.com/GaronStudioBooks

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