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’s wood cut prints, oil paintings, sculptures, large-scale drawings, and sight-specific installed projects explore order, chaos, and entropy. Stubblefield’s imagery is informed by site visits, forensic photography, first-hand accounts, and evidence of changed/damaged/evolving environments caused by super-sized storm patterns and climate change.

Katie Stubblefield lives and makes artworks in Long Beach, CA. She received her BFA at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, and an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2001. She is an adjunct professor teaching art survey and art voca...

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

2026
Marking Matter, Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2025
True Nature Revealed, Vedder Price, Los Angeles, CA​

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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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
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2026
Bad Marks, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Stitching Multiverse, The Artists Gallery (TAG), Los Angeles, CA
Built on Water, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Galactic Nature, Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
Trace of Time, King Studio, Venice, CA

2025
Pasadena Showcase House of Design 2025, Bauer Estate and Gardens, Pasadena, CA
Reimagined Poetry Invitational, Redondo Beach Pier, Redondo Beac...