Being: in Shape | Stella Alesi : Spring Gallery Night 2022

Join us for Spring Gallery Night 2022! On display at Artspace111 will be Austin based artist Stella Alesi in the main gallery with her exhibit, Being: in shape. 

Artspace111 presents Being: in shape by Stella Alesi for Spring Gallery Night. The exhibition will showcase three closely related bodies of work titled, Circuit, With Grace, and The Shape. These three series explore the human experience through 2D and 3D shapes. While bold, playful, organic shapes mimic natural elements like leaves or human bones, other forms resemble ready-made marks like alphabet letters. These multimedia works allow the viewer to explore their own humanity and reflect on the present moment. The Circuit series, 2019, introduces the “U” shape to compositions of balance and repetition. This series was created during a time when Alesi experienced daily challenges as well as small victories. From 2020-2021, Alesi worked on the series, With Grace. This series contains paintings on oil paper mounted to rectangular as well as shaped panels. The use of a gentler and more rounded line was used to create a less literal and more intuitive body of work. With Grace invites the viewer to embrace difficult periods of time, with grace. In her newest work beginning in 2022, Alesi has begun a playful exploration of a single shape. Meant to be displayed in multiples, with numerous configurations available, these works resemble alphabets and the perception of emotions.

“In creating this visual language, I did not set out to communicate any one thought specifically, but more a general sense of being alive in this particular time, in this particular place. If the work speaks beyond this time and place, it is perhaps because we are more alike than different.” – Stella Alesi