Lacey Stinson

Lacey Stinson's love for natural forms, a recurring element in his body of work, comes from having grown up around lakes, creek beds, and undeveloped Southern woods of the United States. Spanish moss creeping from tree to tree, the odor of crawdad flutes rising from the mud, snapping turtles, and rabbit-chasing hounds colored many of the days of his earliest youth. His father's work as a Navy pilot led to two summers in the arid landscapes of southwestern Spain. This invigorated his young imagination. Sand-swept landscapes reluctantly bore scrubby, low-canopied, patchy coniferous forests. Whether mule-drawn cars bearing produce into town, or the orchard trees, ritually stripped of their bark to make cork for bottles of wine"”one of the region's more prized industries"”the timelessness of a day's sights and sounds still inspires him when visiting North Louisiana's peach orchards growing near his current studio.

Stinson's early interests continue to manifest themselves in his later work. His North Louisiana landscape painting has subsequently evolved into abstract studio paintings on large canvases. Expanding on these painting accomplishments, Stinson began collaborating with other artists and writers to design and illustra...

MFA, studio painting, Louisiana Tech University, USA

SOLO EXHIBITS

2016 Lake Charles Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center, "Small Worlds"
Gallery 203, Ruston, Louisiana, "Abstractions"
2015 Schepis Museum, "Lacey Stinson Revealed"
2012 Schepis Museum, "If I Were a Cat for Only an Hour"/Columbia, Louisiana
2011 d.o.c.s. Gallery/New Orleans, Louisiana
Sugar Gallery/Monroe, Louisiana
2010 Upstairs Gallery/Monroe, Louisiana
2008 Livaudais Gallery/Monroe, Louisiana
d.o.c.s. Gallery/New Orleans, Louisiana
Lincoln Parish Museum/Ruston, Louisiana
2007 Easley Fine Art Gallery/Minden, Louisiana
2006 Marshall Visual Arts Center/Marshall, Texas
2004 KUUMBA Gallery/Shreveport, Louisiana
Dunbar Gallery, Grambling State University/Grambling, Louisiana
2001 DART of Lincoln Alternative Exhibition Space/Ruston, Louisiana
1998 Park Avenue Gallery & Genusa’s Restaurant/Monroe, Louisiana

GROUP SHOWS

2013 East Bank Gallery/Bossier City, Louisiana
2012 Ogden Museum of Southern Art's "Louisiana Contemporary"/New Orleans, Louisiana
d.o.c.s. Gallery/New Orleans, Louisiana
Restaurante Sage Alternative Exhibition Space/Monroe, Louisiana
2011 Swanson-Reed Gallery/Louisville, Kentucky
d.o.c.s. Studio/Gallery/New Orleans, Louis...