ABOUT
Drawing from nature and its grammar of symmetry, camouflage, and repetition, Stockman mines her familiar landscapes—Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, and a remote island in Maine—for a distinctive palette of glowing tertiary colors: crackling orange, red earth, Holbein brown, and Fra Angelico blue.
New Yorker art critic Johanna Fateman describes the artist's biomorphic compositions as "both diagrammatic and vaporous, a combination that calls to mind the spiritualist abstractions of the American modernist Agnes Pelton. Although they're more lyrical, Stockman's nested shapes also have the meticulous magic of Josef Albers's squares."
Stockman's paintings emerge from a wide range of references, from natural phenomena—vernal pools, mineral licks, birdsong, black ice—to historical devotional traditions, including Shaker gift drawings, medieval hocketing, portable Renaissance altarpieces, and poetic meter. Her most recent project, presented at Gagosian Athens, explored Emily Wilson's English translation of Homer's Odyssey.
SELECTED artWORKS
LILY STOCKMAN
Burns Canyon, 2021
Three plate aquatint and sugarlift copper etchings on rives
14 x 11 ′′
EXHIBITIONS
Lily Stockman’s solo exhibitions have been held at distinguished galleries such as 47 Canal, New York, NY; P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY; and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA. She has also participated in group exhibitions at venues including The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Stockman’s work is held in the collections of institutions such as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.