Stacey Warnix

Stacey Warnix is an American lyrical abstractionist painter who uses gestural methods to create color-forward, large scale abstract paintings. Her practice explores the experiential affect of atmospheric color and scale, employing disparate materials and dimensional layering to subtly shift the perception, light reflectivity, and luminosity of gestural fields of color.

Introduced young to representational oil painting by an artist grandmother, Stacey was an active creator through her formative years, but ultimately pursued a career in law and finance, working in California and London before moving to Texas, where she started painting again. Struggling with autoimmune disease, infertility, and miscarriages, Stacey experimented with gestural abstraction and became enamored with the process as a meditative escape, finding respite in the abstract forms, textures, and tones – and a means to quietly process the isolation and sorrow.

Stacey builds color with extensive layering of transparent washes and inks, yielding nuanced color and nonfigurative form. Palette selections reference time-worn, hazy memories of light-filled vistas along the California coastline, Europe, and the Texas Hill Country – the places that shaped her. Over ne...

Graduate - The University of Texas (JD) and University College London (LLM)
Undergraduate - Texas A&M University (BBA)

2024
Feb 3 — Artist Presentation — The Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth, Florida, USA
May 16-19 — Affordable Art Fair Austin — Palmer Events Center, Austin, Texas, USA

2023
Jan 25 – 29 — Art Palm Beach (Steidel Contemporary) — Palm Beach County Convention Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Feb 3 — I Heart Austin: An Art Experience, Music Hill Ranch, Austin, Texas USA
Feb 3 – Apr 30 — Winter Invitational Art Show, Music Hill Ranch, Austin, Texas, USA
Feb 16 – Feb 21 — The Palm Beach Show (Steidel Contemporary) — Palm Beach County Convention Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Mar 9-30 — Women in the Forefront — The Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth, Florida, USA
Jul 14-Oct 30 — Summer Show — Wolf Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA

2022
April-May — Peaceful Earth Exhibition — Art Gallery Pure, Plano, Texas, USA
May 12-15 — The Other Art Fair Dallas — Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, Texas, USA
July — Love and Light Exhibition — Art Gallery Pure, Plano, Texas, USA
Nov 29-Dec 4 — Context Art Miami — One Herald Plaza, Miami, Florida, USA

2021
Jan 21 — Bridges Art + Heart Show — Dallas, Texas, USA
Mar 30 - Apr 4 — The Other Art Fair Virtual Edition
May 29 - Sept 6 — NO˚R+H Gallery — Salida, Colorado, USA
Jun - Dec 31 — Music H...