Group Show at Sullivan Gallery

This new show at Sullivan Gallery, 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 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.