This new show at Sullivan Gallery December 2025 & January 2026, Catscapes and other Hypnagogia,* is a playful look at the domestic and surreal. While attending grad school at the Maine College of Art, Stephanie was diagnosed with mild Narcolepsy. This condition had led Stephanie into trouble at school due to the difficulty of staying awake during lectures on Semiotics and such, but it also has a flipside. Narcolepsy supplies the afflicted with a treasure trove of vivid intrusions of dreams into everyday life. This new body of work explores the conditions of the literal nap, with oil paintings of Stephanie’s pet cats playing the role of larger-than-life mythological sleep creatures with their magical soporific influence and antics. Paired with the literal reality are India ink drawings of the artist’s inner dream-world in a heterogeneous confluence of thoughts, memories and visions.
Buttons at the bottom of each painting for a surreal soundtrack to the experience, recorded from her kitties walking the keyboard of her upright piano, not an infrequent nocturnal occurrence in the Reed menagerie.
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(the end of this statement was written by Stephanie’s cat Kitty, and it perfectly marries cat chaos and the slippage into the surreal)
The Catscapes
