Stefanie Wolfson
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW readers to her multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Stefanie and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training and you hold a BFA of Printmaking that you received from the State University of New York. How do your studies influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
Hi! Thanks for having me.
Art has been my passion for as long as I can remember. As a child, museums captivated me. I would go to art museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA whenever I got the chance, with anyone that I could drag with me. So naturally, this led me to pursue my passion for art in college and earn my BFA.
My discovery of printmaking was life changing. I was required one introductory course in my freshman year of college, and I was hooked. SUNY Purchase has an absolutely amazing facility for printmaking and the faculty’ s wealth of knowledge was perhaps my greatest resource.
During my time there I not only studied the technical aspects of printmaking, but also the intricate history of it and the experimental ways that the different processes are being used today. These formative years at SUNY Purchase were an integral part of my development as an artist. It taught me not to work in a bubble – to constantly be aware of and informed by the past and present.
I grew up surrounded by nature. I live in a small suburb that’ s very close to New York City. This dichotomy, the urban world meeting the natural, has also affected me in more ways than I can articulate. The idea that people are too preoccupied to pay attention to the natural beauty that exists all around us, has significantly influenced my work.
Your approach to visual arts condenses a variety of viewpoints, that you combine together into a coherent balance. We would suggest to our readers to visit http:// cargocollective. com / stefani ewolfson in order to get a synoptic view of your work: in the meanwhile, would you like to tell to our readers something about your process and set up? In particular, would you tell our readers something about the evolution of your style? In particular, do you conceive you works instinctively or do you methodically elaborate your pieces?