Stacy Utley is an emerging artist whose work is both
noteworthy and conversant. His use of photography, found object and paint
reconstruct narratives of communities in urban context that have been
gentrified or in transition. His current series “Any City, AMERICA” is a compelling look into gentrification
through the placement of portable objects within an urban setting. The portable
objects – miniature houses, are ambiguous yet familiar in form that serves as
an architectural prototype. His
placement and juxtaposition of the object in the context of apparent
urban renewal provides an uncanny co-existence of old and new, certainty and
uncertainty, past, present, or the unknown. His work is a direct correlation to
his study and training of both art and architecture.
Stacy has earned a M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Lesley
University, College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Boston) in
Boston MA. He has also earned a B.A in Architecture and B.A. in Environmental
Design from the College of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh
NC. He has mentored under artist such as Juan Logan, Roxana Perez-Mendez and
Susan Harbage-Page, as well as architect Phil Freelon FAIA. His practice
currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Stacy Utley is an emerging artist whose work is both
noteworthy and conversant. His use of photography, found object and paint
reconstruct narratives of communities in urban context that have been
gentrified or in transition. His current series “Any City, AMERICA” is a compelling look into gentrification
through the placement of portable objects within an urban setting. The portable
objects – miniature houses, are ambiguous yet familiar in form that serves as
an architectural prototype. His
placement and juxtaposition of the object in the context of apparent
urban renewal provides an uncanny co-existence of old and new, certainty and
uncertainty, past, present, or the unknown. His work is a direct correlation to
his study and training of both art and architecture.
Stacy has earned a M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Lesley
University, College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Boston) in
Boston MA. He has also earned a B.A in Architecture and B.A. in Environmental
Design from the College of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh
NC. He has mentored under artist such as Juan Logan, Roxana Perez-Mendez and
Susan Harbage-Page, as well as architect Phil Freelon FAIA. His practice
currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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