About
Stephanie Tyson Osorio is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in print, plaster and paper pulp to explore aspects and experiences of being simultaneously in two places: in the tangible physical environment and the impalpable tethered mind. Raised in Honduras, Stephanie has lived in the United States since 2011 in Ohio, Rhode Island and now currently in Michigan.
She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Wright State University. She had a solo exhibition in Providence, Rhode Island in 2022, and has exhibited in shows in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Michigan.
Artist Statement
My work stems from my personal experiences and research surrounding vast deserts, dry salt flats and the endless expanse of space. These places and their forms and textures stimulate moments of full immersion which are then disrupted by persistent thought. Considering these open spaces and the speculative distance of their boundaries creates a silence that my mind immediately tries to fill putting me in a flickering state between two places: that of noisy thinking and of quiet landscape.
Using printmaking, sculpture, and papermaking, I recreate instances of being absorbed in thought or engrossed by environment and the moments where they overlap. At times the work resolves as a nonspecific memory of tangible textures where the mind can get lost in the sudden and repetitive interruptions of surface. Other times, language and notation come through as an investigation of mapping, flattening and the translation of thinking into words and numbers.
I consider what it means to “be somewhere”, physically and mentally. My sense of place is determined by the focus of my attention. It can be the present surrounding environment, the image of what is before me, or my internal mindscape manifesting in a parallel space of thought, memory, and feeling.
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