Stacy Neasham

ARTIST STATEMENT:

“My artistic style? Enhanced complicated simplicity with a purpose to bring joy, peace and happiness to the viewer. Utilizing my extremely strong internal design pattern in varying ways manipulating amorphous shapes and patterns that are heavily texturized in multicolored or monochromatic palettes. Nonrepresentational and pieces without a focal point are dominant in my portfolio, but I do have a fondness for abstracts with a landscape vibe.

BIO:

Inspired by Van Goh’s color patching and Matisse’s joie de vivre, Stacy Neashams' art is often compared to Klimt as she overlaps her oils and experiments with raw pigment, using paintbrush and palette knife to give her vivacious, energetic shapes the freedom to breathe, to collide, to fly, but to never have a singular focus. Just like her life. But for this shy Phoenix native, painting was about communication—and at times, survival. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Arizona, she became an IT manager, spending weekdays under fluorescent lights and weekends in her studio, seeking liberation and finding magic. Now a full-time painter, Stacy has exhibited at Portland in the Park and at Phoenix’s {9} The Gallery, Mood Room, Arizona Fine Art Ex...

Bachelor in Fine Arts, University of Arizona

Upcoming:
Hidden in the Hills, November 2022

AZ Fine Art Expo, Scottsdale AZ Jan - Mar 2023

Hidden in the Hills, November 19-21 & 26-28, 2021, Carefree, AZ  **** 2 week ends, with over 45 home studios to visit, each with guest artists. I will be a guest artist.



AZ Fine Art Expo 2022, January 14 through March 2022, 150 artists, be with the artists as we work in our studios within a gallery setting.  Everyday 10 - 6. 

SW corner of Jomax and Scottsdale Rd, 5 miles north of Loop 101.  Scottsdale, AZ.

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Ongoing and past:

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Portland in the park: Flowers and Vases on exhibit, August 2021 thru current.

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Portland in the park: Wonderland and Naturally abstract Yellow on exhibit, April through August 2021


Found:RE Contemporary Voices Exhibit, Bazaar Day, March 27 through April 17, 2021

On Golden Pond, Mood room - Artlinks: Indexhibit

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AZ Fine art expo 2021, January 15 through March 28, 2021

9th Gallery, at the Lawrence building,  " The big white one " exhibit December 2020 through current.

Portland in the park - "Naturally abstract 1" exhibit November 2020 to March 2021

Portland in the park - "Cloudbusting" exhibited, July to November 2020

Herberger Gallery – “Flagstaff Street Ban...