Stacy Lynn Waddell
As the Fall 2024 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist, Waddell will complete a week-long residency, October 21-25, 2024, working alongside students and printers at Island Press. She will give an artist talk as part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 22 at 5:30pm in Steinberg Auditorium on the Washington University campus.
THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH PROJECT IMAGES FOLLOWING STACY’S RESIDENCY.
Stacy Lynn Waddell’s work considers the authorship and idealism of art historical narratives and how they correspond to the economic and political structures of their time while highlighting contemporary issues related to visibility, desire, and power. Since earning her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Waddell has participated in exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, Pérez Art Museum, Miami and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum among other venues.
YOUNG WOMAN HOLDING A FLOWER (for M. S.), 2022, 48 x 36 inches, 22-karat gold leaf on linen
Waddell’s work is included in several public and private collections that include The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery among others. Waddell is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Artist-inResidence at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, QueenSpace in New York and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. During Fall 2022, Waddell ended the year with an exhibit at Sala1 in Rome, Italy and as a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow in Umbria, Italy where she spent six weeks producing works and conducting research in a 15th century castle. She lives and works in North Carolina.