Artist Statement
My work begins in the body as economy: thin white body, thin white economy. Defined by a visual language of appropriated artistic tropes—chiaroscuro, figure-ground, deified femininity, monumental scale—my work forcefully challenges a skewed pictorial narrative that suppresses women. Largely engaged in creating tensions within the dominant history of representation, it questions the image of woman as bound to the authorship of men.
Stephanie Jane Halmos was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Her art practice incorporates photography, video, performance and installation.
Halmos has a BFA from Miami University (2006), and an MFA from the California College of the Arts (2012). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Homesick at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Oxnard, CA), Hemispheres at the Lana Santorelli Gallery (New York, NY), The Magnificent Seven at the Wattis Institute of Art (San Francisco, CA) Strange Beauty at The Center for Fine Art Photography (Denver, CO) and the publication and exhibition for The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography at the Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY), among many others.
She is based in San Francisco and New York.
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