The Nevers Crush Painting

"Inspired by super-sized weather systems, Katie Stubblefield’s imagery is informed by forensic photography and first-hand accounts of nature in constant flux. Her works serve as a record of the visual aftermath of weather, discarded trees, knotted rebar, chunked concrete, mangled clothes, deconstructed architecture and disused vehicle parts, interwoven, tangled and refigured in space. These clouds of debris can take on an almost ominous tone. The artist’s passion for the forces of nature cut into the realities she invokes making her creations more a reckoning of awe than a reckoning of destruction." ​ --Suzanne Walsh Katie Stubblefield (b. 1966, Cookeville, Tennessee) lives and works in the Los Angeles area. She received her BFA from Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, and an MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2001. Stubblefield has received a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach in 2022 as well as the ACLB's Insight/Incite Award in 2019. Her works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Carolyn Kleefield Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA; Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA; San Louis Obispo Museum of Art, San Louis Obispo, CA; Angels Gate Arts Center, San Pedro, CA; and the Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY.