Elaine Stocki

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Elaine Stocki
Born1979 (age 42–43)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
OccupationPhotographer, painter, professor

Elaine Stocki (born 1979) is a Canadian artist and professor known for her paintings, photographs and her abstract feminist art. [1] Stocki lives in Los Angeles and teaches art at Fullerton University. [2]

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Early life and education

Stocki was born in 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She studied at the University of Manitoba, where she received both a BSc (chemistry) and a BFA degree. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2009. [3]

Work

Although Stocki is known primarily for her photographs, her paintings have been exhibited in Paris, New York and Los Angeles.

Her photographs have been described as "little retro gems", that appeal to viewers' nostalgia, but can also have a raw, street photography quality. [4] Stocki prints her images on silver gelatin, and tints them by hand. [4] Her works' retro feel is produced by the processes by which she creates them, including film sprocket holes and layers cut and pasted by hand. The street photography quality of her work is often referenced to the "indecisive moment", a play of the term coined and made famous by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. [5] [6] Stocki has expressed disdain for the ironical photography of the 1990s often referred to as postmodern. "I think the deadpan look of photographers like Tina Barney doesn't reflect human experience. ... I take offense at work that is entirely divorced from human experience!" [7]

Stocki was awarded the international Tierney Fellowship in Photography for emerging artists in 2009, the same year as South African photographer Tracy Edser. [8]

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art [9] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [10]

Selected works

YearTitlePublication
2009Balcony Series & P.A Series [11] Night Papers
2009Elaine Stocki: BalconyTBW Books
2011 Time magazine's LightBox [12] Time
2015Matte Magazine no. 40: HomelessMatte Magazine
2017Hoar Frost [13] Golden Spike Press
2018LENS CatalogueLACMA

Awards

YearNameWon/Nominated
2009Tierney Fellowship [8] Won
2011Grange Prize [14] Finalist
2012 Sobey Art Award [15] Nominated
2019Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography [3] Won

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  2. ↑ "Elaine Stocki | Artist Profile, Exhibitions & Artworks | Ocula". ocula.com. March 10, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Elaine Stocki". Widewalls. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ Copeland, Colette (2011). "Truth or Fiction?". AfterImage. 38:4 (4): 25–26. doi:10.1525/aft.2011.38.4.25.
  6. ↑ Baird, David (2011–2012). "The indecisive moment. The photography of Elaine Stocki". Border Crossings. 30:4: 46–54 – via Dialnet.
  7. ↑ Baird, Daniel (2011). "The Indecisive Moment: The Photography of Elaine Stocki". Border Crossings: 46–53.
  8. 1 2 "The Tierney Fellowship - About". www.tierneyfellowship.com. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  9. ↑ "William". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  10. ↑ "New Curated Collator: 27 L.A. Photographers | Unframed". unframed.lacma.org.
  11. ↑ "Elaine Stocki - Balcony". Stephen Bulger Gallery. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  12. ↑ Matutschovsky, Natalie. "Beyond Yale: Another View of New Haven". Time . Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Elaine Stocki - Hoar Frost". Printed Matter. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Canada's Grange Prize for photography undergoes a makeover" . Retrieved March 10, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Sobey Art Award". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
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