ARTWork
Inspired by wanderlust, language, and the seduction of movement in any medium, I create multidisciplinary projects using a wide range of artistic methods, materials and technologies in inventive, experimental ways. My impulse to create is at once deeply inspired by wild imagination and motivated by intellectual curiosities. The nature of language, memory, space and place are the recurring concepts that I research and investigate through my creative projects. Ultimately the foundation of my artistic practice is an investment in new genres, cross-disciplinary inquiry, and forging new methods of creative research as a way to generate visceral experiences.
video, installation, sculpture, performance, writing, dance, printmaking, photography, Fiber, Drawing, Painting
Prioritizing experimentation over tradition, I always seek new ways to transform materials, alter traditional craft techniques, and create hybridity by mixing fine art mediums, analog, and new media technologies. Materiality is central to my expression of concept; I often use found materials (recycled objects and found images), considering their cultural and historical and cultural value, textures, and ability to translate ideas through aesthetic metaphors.
Nomadic Mythologies movie poster
Freedom // Gestures studio photography series
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Nomadic Mythologies
current / ongoing body of work and an experimental narrative screendance film (2024)
2023/2026
Experimental narrative screen dance film, and forthcoming multimedia installation
“we are the dream the city is having about itself.” ~ “the city is the dream we are having of where we belong”
Nomadic Mythologies is a genre bending tale of a woman and the imagination of the city. As she maps each site with her body, the city is transformed from the foreign into the familiar, the dream wakens, their connection grows, ultimately revealing what belonging somewhere truly means. Her journey shines light on the invisible edges between memory and desire, perception and experience, reality and fiction. The boundary between the perpetual and the evanescent vanishes, the concept of place becomes a dimensional frontier of experiential wonder. Simultaneously an experimental narrative and screen dance
film, this psychogeographic odyssey is inspired by wanderlust, kinship, and Italo Calvino’s novella, Invisible Cities.
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Corresponding Daydreams is an ongoing project of diverse artworks from shuffle stories to sculptures that
Site-specific sculptures and photo artwork, on view at The Stairwell Space, Bridgeport, CT — that activates both the history of the lace factory and the spiral staircase as a place where ephemeral thoughts are potent in shared space. Employing the materiality of lace as a visual metaphor for daydreams, the artworks visualize the traces of these passing poetries that loom in the grey area between consciousness and imagination, illuminating the invisible patterns and interconnections therein.
The five artworks exhibited were created with elements from the history and architecture of the American Fabrics building, crowd-sourced narratives of personal relationships to daydreaming, and handmade fi ne art processes with found materials.
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READING A WAVE
Multidisciplinary body of work [inspired by Italo Calvino's novella, Mr. Palomar] created at & commissioned by Lane Community College (Eugene, Oregon USA) Inaugural Artist in Residence & Presidential Visiting Scholar
Video, Dance, Sculptural Installation, Cyanotype Photography, Collected Objects, Text Analysis
"You cannot observe a wave without bearing in mind the complex features that concur in shaping it and the other, equally complex ones that the wave itself originates. ...it could perhaps be the key to mastering the world's complexity by reducing it to its simplist mechanism." - Italo Calvino
digital salt print of Polaroid photo on handmade paper, Memory Machine
sculpture from An Unquiet Mind
dice (sketch model), You Are The Measure
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Stella Fontinella is crazy about feminism, social commentary, and magic! In a trilogy of performances, Stella unravels our notions of the female construct!
When The Revolution Comes I Want To Be A Housewife
Future Speak
Stinky Knits
a trilogy of solo multimedia performances in the annual Performance Art festival, Almost Public // Semi-Exposed at Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA, USA
Scrolling Stella
exhiibted in AEMPIRE AGAIN, at Hartford Art Space, Hartford, CT, USA
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An Unquiet Mind: The Untold Story of Isabelle Cadieux
is a parafictional body of work that comprises the artworks and artifacts of unknown French Outsider Artist., Isabelle Cadieux (b. 1966 – d. 1997, France)
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Experimental Film, Interactive artwork, and Photography series created with found footage & photographs, video, performance, documentary interviews, sound design, lighting handmade paper, digital salt photography, water
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archived work
detail of plaster sculpture, Corresponding Daydreams
