Seeking the Creative: Allie Stabile, Painter

Epoch. Acrylic, spray paint, newspaper, magazine, sand, and oil stick on canvas. 70 x 60 in. CREDIT: Allie Stabile

How would you describe your art in three words?

Graphic, Chaotic, Textured.

Allie Stabile, Grind — Grind. Acrylic, newspaper, fabric, and oil stick on canvas. 60 x 70 in. CREDIT: Allie Stabile

Where/how do you gather inspiration?

I gather inspiration from my immediate environment, which is currently Brooklyn, NY. I am inspired by the many types of infrastructure that are present (trains, bridges, buses) and the materials I observe on billboards and the worn exteriors of buildings.

What do you hope audiences retain from your work?

I hope audiences retain how the materials present in my work reiterate the cityscape of New York, and how their placement indicates discrepancies between different neighborhoods and territories. I am originally from Carlisle, PA which is a particularly rural area, and this has influenced how I view the grid to function both in rural and urban environments. I feel that by using the grid to displace underlying gestures and forms that symbolize the individual, I point out how the distribution of material resources affect a landscape’s social development.