In The Glow
Concept drawing for ‘In The Glow’ installation at the Triton Museum of Art. visitors can walk around and behind a 16-foot-tall, 20-foot-wide sculpture made of stitched white industrial felt; an undulating topographical ‘skin’ in which the parts that appear concave on one side are convex on the other. Carefully patterned and pieced-together thick felt will hold its shape and gently bounce tinted pink back from an intensely bright pink wall behind the sculptural forms.
In September 2024 Stephanie Metz will present a new body of work, In the Glow, at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, California. Consisting of free-standing and wall-mounted sculptures and a site-specific immersive installation, the works will employ fiber media, body-like forms and reflected color to explore themes of soft power, aesthetic perception, and the intimate contradictions of a woman’s experiences.
Created from wool fibers shaped into solid objects or three-dimensional forms sutured together from pieces of thick, smooth wool felt, the artworks will allude to the female-identifying body through abstract language rendered in soft media. The sculptures will channel a multitude of incarnations of what it means experience life as a contemporary woman: strong, complex, lovely, grotesque, painful, elegant, overwhelming, vulnerable, powerful, and visceral. Carefully incorporated areas of intense pink pigment- an already loaded color- will bounce muted pink light off white textiles, highlighting their contours and calling attention to the aesthetic effect itself. The exhibition will invite viewers to consider the act of looking and being looked at, the body as object versus subject, and an expanding definition of femininity and gender norms.
Read a blog post about my new project here.
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