STEPHANIE SERPICK
VIEW PAINTINGS
Stephanie Serpick’s paintings are intimate and spare compositions about the shared human experience of intense emotion. Working from found photographs, Serpick uses the small size of the paintings to pull the viewer in close to inspect the bedding in disarray and botanical arrangements that are the subject of her current work. The backgrounds are repeatedly painted and sanded, to create a frame and backdrop for the imagery that is flat, yet rough with work and time.
The tousled bedding embodies the duality of our privates spaces. These spaces are where we retreat to when the world overwhelms and provide a place of healing in those moments. They represent the difficult times and the balm for our souls. Serpick’s compositions are bisected with the right and left compositions being related but out of alignment. Poetic, beautifully painted, and capturing an unexpected calmness, the paintings are nuanced and layered conceptual statements about what it means to be human.
Stephanie Serpick is a visual artist working primarily as a painter. She received her MFA from the University of Chicago, and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she currently lives and works in New York.
The tousled bedding embodies the duality of our privates spaces. These spaces are where we retreat to when the world overwhelms and provide a place of healing in those moments. They represent the difficult times and the balm for our souls. Serpick’s compositions are bisected with the right and left compositions being related but out of alignment. Poetic, beautifully painted, and capturing an unexpected calmness, the paintings are nuanced and layered conceptual statements about what it means to be human.
Stephanie Serpick is a visual artist working primarily as a painter. She received her MFA from the University of Chicago, and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she currently lives and works in New York.
Stephanie Serpick, Void of Modern Life 16, 2023, oil on panel, 9x12 in. SOLD
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Stephanie Serpick,
Interior Visions #15, 2023,
oil on panel,
16x20 in.,
$5,000
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Stephanie Serpick,
Eclipse #2, 2023,
oil on panel,
16x20 in.,
$5,000
RESUME
EDUCATION
MFA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Interior Visions: Domestic Sphere, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2022 Vaulted Gallery, Mary Helen Cochran Library, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia
2020 Jacintha Clark and Stephanie Serpick (two-person exhibition), The Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art at Pratt, Utica, NY
2020 Stephanie Serpick—Watercolors (online exhibition), Marloe Gallery, Artsy.net
2019 A New Fall by Stephanie Serpick, Windmill Library Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
(Traveling to Enterprise Library Art Gallery and Laughlin Library Art Gallery, both Las Vegas, NV)
2019 Stephanie Serpick: It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Stephanie Serpick and William Ruller (two-person exhibition), Chesapeake Gallery, Hartford Community College, Bel Air, MD
2018 Stephanie Serpick, Fine Arts Gallery, College of Southern Nevada, NV
2015 Stephanie Serpick: New Paintings, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
2012 The Mechanics of Nature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2005 Stephanie Serpick: New Work, Country Club, Chicago, IL
2003 New Paintings, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas TX
2001 Stephanie Serpick: New Paintings, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Tricks and Gifts, Chicago Illini Union, University of Illinois at Chicago
1993 Recent Work, Winchester Thurston Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Leonor R. Fuller Gallery (three-person exhibition), South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
2022 King Street Gallery (three-person exhibition), Montgomery College, Tacoma Park, MD
2021 Scatter Terrain, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
2021 Seeing Past the Future (online exhibition), Exhibition of works by 2019–2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients, pkhouse.org and pkf.org
2021 Page Turner (online exhibition), Odetta Digital | SHIM Art Network
2020 Material World (three-person exhibition), Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2020 Linework: Online Exclusive, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020 Stars of the Gallery II, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020 Intersect Aspen, virtual art fair, Marloe Gallery
2019 Stars of the Gallery: A Group Show, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2019 Hard and Soft (three-person exhibition), University of Cincinnati Blue Ash Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Pegs Pongs Applesauce, LoBo, New York, NY
2019 Startup Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA
2019 Familiar Unreal, curated by Marc Dennis, ARCIS Art Storage, New York, NY
2018 Après Coup: Transforming Trauma into Art, (an exhibition presented in tandem with the conference,
2018 Translating Trauma into Art and Literature) Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York, NY
2018 15 YRS!, ada Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 Shelter, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2018 Civil Discourse, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017 Prismatic Explorations, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glenns Falls, NY
2017 Five Points Gallery Biennial Exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2017 Unreliable Narrator, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ
2017 Open (C)all: Truth, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Art of Grief, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2017 SHIM Invitational 5, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Words + Text + Numbers, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO
2016 Elegant Simplicity, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2014 Painting Now, Florence Quarter Gallery, Southwest University of Visual Arts, Tucson, AZ
2012 Greatest Hits, Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2012 The Drawing Annual, Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2012 Art: The Icing on the Cake, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2011 The Collective, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Normalcy Bias, Listros Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009 Overlap, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 What is Beauty — A Desire to Decorate, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2008 Unpainted: New Abstract Painting, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 New Work, ada Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 One Moment, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2007 Plaza Art Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2006 100% Centennial Exhibition, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Florence Trust Summer Exhibition, Florence Trust Studios, London, UK
2004 Scope London, featured artist, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, London, UK
2004 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, exhibiting with Paul Kopeikin Gallery, New York, NY
2004 17th Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2004 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Introductory Group Exhibit, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Gallery Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 The Big Show, Dwelling Series, Chicago, IL
2001 Chicago Women Artists, Gallery on Lake Judith Racht, Chicago, IL
2001 Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Summer Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Pilsen East Artists’ Open House, Chicago, IL
1999 Pilsen East Artists’ Open House, Chicago, IL
1999 Jacqueline Ross Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Chicago Artists ‘99, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1997 Latent Exposure, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1997 The Garden Show, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1995 Ecstasy, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Scholarship Exhibition, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
1994 Midway Graduate Student Exhibition, Midway Studios, University of Chicago
1993 Young and Local Alumni Show, Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1992 First Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, Skibo Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1992 Figure to Form to Image, Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1991 Exhibition of Art in Recovery, Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, Pittsburgh, PA
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2022 Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency, Cuttyhunk, MA
2021 Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency, Ithaca, NY
2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2018 Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant
2017 The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Awarded partial scholarship for two-week residency
2013 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2012 Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Awarded partial scholarship for four-week residency
2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007 Awarded full fellowship for four week residency and NEA Fellowship to cover travel and expenses.
2007 Non-Representational Award, Plaza Art Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2004–5 Florence Trust, London, UK
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2021 Tulika Bahadur, “It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn: Beds by Stephanie Serpick”, On Art and Aesthetics, February 2021.
2020 “Flinn Gallery Exhibit Opens “Material World” Thursday”, Greenwich Free Press, September 9, 2020.
2020 Ken Borsuk, “Greenwich’s Flinn Gallery offers ‘return to normalcy’ with new exhibit”, Greenwich Time, September 9, 2020.
2019 Alissa Guzman, “From Domestic to Introspective, Highlights From Gowanus Open Studios 2019”, Hyperallergic, October 22, 2019.
2019 Emma Taggart, “Photorealistic Oil Paintings of Empty Beds Capture Feelings of Grief and Isolation”, My Modern Met, November 3, 2019.
2018 Etty Yaniv, “Après Coup: Transforming Trauma into Art”, Art Spiel Blog, April 2018.
2018 Esthetic Lens, “A New Fall, the Paintings of Stephanie Serpick”, estheticlens.com, July 25, 2018
2018 “The Art of Stephanie Serpick”, Ruminate Magazine, Exposure Issue, number 48, Fall 2018
2009 MK Meador. “Recommended,” New City, January 19, 2009.
2005 Josh Tyson. “Stephanie Serpick: New Work,” Time Out Chicago, Issue number 45, January 5-12, 2006, p. 55.
2004 Tracee W. Robertson. “Stephanie Serpick: New Work,” Artl!ies, Number 41, Winter 2003-04, p. 77.
2004 “This is Chicago,” Big Magazine, Number 49, p. 153-157.
2002 New American Paintings, Number 41. Published by the Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts, Number 41, 2002.
2000 Polanski, Jurek G. “Review, Stephanie Serpick: Tricks and Gifts”, artscope.net
1999 Hawkins, Margaret. “Comic Reliefs,” Chicago Sun-Times, 2 July, p. 52.
1999 Polanski, Jurek G. “Pilsen East Artists’ Open House,” artscope.net.
1999 Wiens, Ann. “Tip of the Week,” New City, 24 June, p. 47.
1997 Ferrara, Annette. “Gallery Seen,” F Newsmagazine, April, p. 20.
1997 Glatt, Cara. “The Seduction of Logic,” Hyde Park Herald, 19 March, p. 8.
1997 Greenberg, Kevin. “HPAC Explores Latent Psychoses,” The Chicago Maroon, 8 April.
MFA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Interior Visions: Domestic Sphere, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2022 Vaulted Gallery, Mary Helen Cochran Library, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia
2020 Jacintha Clark and Stephanie Serpick (two-person exhibition), The Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art at Pratt, Utica, NY
2020 Stephanie Serpick—Watercolors (online exhibition), Marloe Gallery, Artsy.net
2019 A New Fall by Stephanie Serpick, Windmill Library Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
(Traveling to Enterprise Library Art Gallery and Laughlin Library Art Gallery, both Las Vegas, NV)
2019 Stephanie Serpick: It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Stephanie Serpick and William Ruller (two-person exhibition), Chesapeake Gallery, Hartford Community College, Bel Air, MD
2018 Stephanie Serpick, Fine Arts Gallery, College of Southern Nevada, NV
2015 Stephanie Serpick: New Paintings, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
2012 The Mechanics of Nature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2005 Stephanie Serpick: New Work, Country Club, Chicago, IL
2003 New Paintings, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas TX
2001 Stephanie Serpick: New Paintings, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Tricks and Gifts, Chicago Illini Union, University of Illinois at Chicago
1993 Recent Work, Winchester Thurston Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Leonor R. Fuller Gallery (three-person exhibition), South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
2022 King Street Gallery (three-person exhibition), Montgomery College, Tacoma Park, MD
2021 Scatter Terrain, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
2021 Seeing Past the Future (online exhibition), Exhibition of works by 2019–2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients, pkhouse.org and pkf.org
2021 Page Turner (online exhibition), Odetta Digital | SHIM Art Network
2020 Material World (three-person exhibition), Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2020 Linework: Online Exclusive, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020 Stars of the Gallery II, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2020 Intersect Aspen, virtual art fair, Marloe Gallery
2019 Stars of the Gallery: A Group Show, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
2019 Hard and Soft (three-person exhibition), University of Cincinnati Blue Ash Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Pegs Pongs Applesauce, LoBo, New York, NY
2019 Startup Art Fair, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA
2019 Familiar Unreal, curated by Marc Dennis, ARCIS Art Storage, New York, NY
2018 Après Coup: Transforming Trauma into Art, (an exhibition presented in tandem with the conference,
2018 Translating Trauma into Art and Literature) Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York, NY
2018 15 YRS!, ada Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 Shelter, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2018 Civil Discourse, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017 Prismatic Explorations, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glenns Falls, NY
2017 Five Points Gallery Biennial Exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2017 Unreliable Narrator, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ
2017 Open (C)all: Truth, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Art of Grief, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2017 SHIM Invitational 5, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Words + Text + Numbers, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO
2016 Elegant Simplicity, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2014 Painting Now, Florence Quarter Gallery, Southwest University of Visual Arts, Tucson, AZ
2012 Greatest Hits, Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2012 The Drawing Annual, Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2012 Art: The Icing on the Cake, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2011 The Collective, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Normalcy Bias, Listros Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009 Overlap, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 What is Beauty — A Desire to Decorate, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2008 Unpainted: New Abstract Painting, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 New Work, ada Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 One Moment, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2007 Plaza Art Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2006 100% Centennial Exhibition, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Florence Trust Summer Exhibition, Florence Trust Studios, London, UK
2004 Scope London, featured artist, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, London, UK
2004 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, exhibiting with Paul Kopeikin Gallery, New York, NY
2004 17th Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2004 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Introductory Group Exhibit, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Gallery Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 The Big Show, Dwelling Series, Chicago, IL
2001 Chicago Women Artists, Gallery on Lake Judith Racht, Chicago, IL
2001 Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Summer Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Pilsen East Artists’ Open House, Chicago, IL
1999 Pilsen East Artists’ Open House, Chicago, IL
1999 Jacqueline Ross Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Chicago Artists ‘99, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1997 Latent Exposure, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1997 The Garden Show, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1995 Ecstasy, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Scholarship Exhibition, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
1994 Midway Graduate Student Exhibition, Midway Studios, University of Chicago
1993 Young and Local Alumni Show, Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1992 First Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, Skibo Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1992 Figure to Form to Image, Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1991 Exhibition of Art in Recovery, Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, Pittsburgh, PA
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2022 Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency, Cuttyhunk, MA
2021 Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency, Ithaca, NY
2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2018 Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant
2017 The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Awarded partial scholarship for two-week residency
2013 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2012 Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Awarded partial scholarship for four-week residency
2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007 Awarded full fellowship for four week residency and NEA Fellowship to cover travel and expenses.
2007 Non-Representational Award, Plaza Art Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2004–5 Florence Trust, London, UK
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2021 Tulika Bahadur, “It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn: Beds by Stephanie Serpick”, On Art and Aesthetics, February 2021.
2020 “Flinn Gallery Exhibit Opens “Material World” Thursday”, Greenwich Free Press, September 9, 2020.
2020 Ken Borsuk, “Greenwich’s Flinn Gallery offers ‘return to normalcy’ with new exhibit”, Greenwich Time, September 9, 2020.
2019 Alissa Guzman, “From Domestic to Introspective, Highlights From Gowanus Open Studios 2019”, Hyperallergic, October 22, 2019.
2019 Emma Taggart, “Photorealistic Oil Paintings of Empty Beds Capture Feelings of Grief and Isolation”, My Modern Met, November 3, 2019.
2018 Etty Yaniv, “Après Coup: Transforming Trauma into Art”, Art Spiel Blog, April 2018.
2018 Esthetic Lens, “A New Fall, the Paintings of Stephanie Serpick”, estheticlens.com, July 25, 2018
2018 “The Art of Stephanie Serpick”, Ruminate Magazine, Exposure Issue, number 48, Fall 2018
2009 MK Meador. “Recommended,” New City, January 19, 2009.
2005 Josh Tyson. “Stephanie Serpick: New Work,” Time Out Chicago, Issue number 45, January 5-12, 2006, p. 55.
2004 Tracee W. Robertson. “Stephanie Serpick: New Work,” Artl!ies, Number 41, Winter 2003-04, p. 77.
2004 “This is Chicago,” Big Magazine, Number 49, p. 153-157.
2002 New American Paintings, Number 41. Published by the Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts, Number 41, 2002.
2000 Polanski, Jurek G. “Review, Stephanie Serpick: Tricks and Gifts”, artscope.net
1999 Hawkins, Margaret. “Comic Reliefs,” Chicago Sun-Times, 2 July, p. 52.
1999 Polanski, Jurek G. “Pilsen East Artists’ Open House,” artscope.net.
1999 Wiens, Ann. “Tip of the Week,” New City, 24 June, p. 47.
1997 Ferrara, Annette. “Gallery Seen,” F Newsmagazine, April, p. 20.
1997 Glatt, Cara. “The Seduction of Logic,” Hyde Park Herald, 19 March, p. 8.
1997 Greenberg, Kevin. “HPAC Explores Latent Psychoses,” The Chicago Maroon, 8 April.