Stephanie Todhunter

Stephanie Todhunter received a BA from Bowdoin College and did postgraduate work at the University of Minnesota. Her work has been exhibited at numerous galleries including the Kathryn Schultz, Hera, Gallery 263, Fountain Street and Abigail Ogilvy Galleries, and in the AREACODE Art Fair, the Boston International Fine Art Show, the Danforth Art Museum and the Art Complex Museum. She was awarded the Mozaik Future Art Award in 2020 by Mozaik Philanthropy Los Angeles and Artist of the Year 2017 by the Cambridge Art Association. 

Artist Statement

I navigate between analog and digital realms, blending found and constructed images from diverse channels like Ebay, thrift stores, and Wikimedia Commons. Starting with open-source software, I create digital compositions before using a toner-transfer printmaking method onto canvas, plywood, and paper, melding traditional and modern techniques into a nostalgic fusion.

I use such hands-on techniques as ripping, sanding, scraping and over-painting to introduce uncertainty and unpredictability, creating tension between chaos and control. I am interested in the conflict between the internal and the external, the private and the public. 

I work in two and three dimensions, with paper and plastic, both purchased and found. I combine elements from my childhood- isolation, stranger danger, missing children, parental neglect and “satanic panic”, with contemporary feminism and pop culture motifs: body dis-morphia, second/third/fourth wave feminism and cancel culture. I compare the past and the present: Roe vs Wade, affirmative action, the race to the moon, women’s liberation and personal identity. 

World-building enables me to explore the ways in which societal norms affect personal relationships. I am fascinated by how artists’ characters and creations fit into the worlds they have created, the personal rules they follow and the stories they tell.