Stephanie Washburn (1980, MA) works in various media, but is constantly informed by the processes of drawing and painting. In her photography, Washburn applies butter, potatoes, tea bags, shaving cream, pillow stuffing, garden clippings and other domestic materials to her television screen. The images that result generate a range of painterly abstractions and counter narratives to the programmed content flickering beneath. With references to Abstract Expressionism, feminist art practice and early performance, they pose a real physicality as the dramatic player in both the fictive space of the television and her own hybrid image making. In a world clearly mediated and ever more intensely marketed, Washburn explores how the malleability of form can suggest a more generous politics of the body.

Washburn received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has been exhibited at The University Art Museum (CA), The Palms Bar (CA), Atkinson Gallery (CA), Santa Barbara Museum of Art (CA), Eagle Rock Center for the Arts (CA), Los Angeles Municipal Gallery (CA) and Davidson Art Center (CT). She currently lives and works between Ojai and Los Angeles.

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