Katie Stubblefield

"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."
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--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...

2001
MFA, Summa Cum Laude, Drawing/Painting, California State University, Long Beach, CA
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1991
BFA, Cum Laude, Drawing/Painting, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2024
Bandersnitch, Red Post Gallery @ the Brewery Complex, Los Angeles, CA
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Sacred Roots, Long Beach, CA
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2019
Katie Stubblefield, Berlin, Long Beach, CA
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2017
Between, Utopia, Long Beach, CA
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2016
Fugue, Sasha With Design, Long Beach, CA
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2015
Graftlings, District, Long Beach, CA
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2014
Antidotes and Poisons, Edge, Long Beach, CA
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2011
Amnesiac, Edge, Long Beach, CA
Bring Winter, Fourth Street Vine, Long Beach, CA
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2005
Lick, Walled City, San Pedro, CA
Twitch, Viento Y Agua, Long Beach, CA
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2004
Shug, Utopia, Long Beach, CA
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2003
Swallowing Suburbia, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
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2002
Split, Broadlind Hotel, Sponsored by Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, CA
Dead Point, California State University, Long Beach, CA
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2025
Pasadena Showcase House of Design 2025, Bauer Estate and Gardens, Pasadena, CA. Designer: Rebecca J. Hansen
Reimagined Poetry Invitational, Redondo Beach Pier, Redondo Beach, CA. Curator: Nina Zak Laddon

2024
Digging Beneath Ghost Lake: Dave Clark, Jennifer Gunlock, Katie Stubblefield, Artist Co-Op, Long Beach, CA
Small Works in Flux, Flux Art Space, Long Beach, CA
Pattern & Des...