Stacia Mckeever

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Volume:
Where do you live / where do you work?

Stacia McKeever:
I live and work in Philadelphia, PA and share a studio at the Crane Arts building.

Volume: What’s your day to day studio schedule like?

McKeever: Truly varied. I like to have multiple pieces going at once and sort of jump around. Sometimes I spend the whole day just looking and thinking. I don’t usually have an end goal in mind when I begin so the process is very intuitive. I also enjoy taking trips to the hardware store, thrift shops, and dollar store to brainstorm and collect materials.

Volume: Who’s work have you been looking at lately?

McKeever: Claire Barclay, Tauba Auerbach, Assemble (a collective based in London), Richard Tuttle, Agnes Martin.

Volume: What was the last show you saw in person that really changed your work?

McKeever: The Iza Genzken retrospective at the MCA in Chicago. I had just finished my MFA and was beginning to hoard strange materials with no real idea of what they would become, just an urge to do so. That show reminded me that I wasn’t crazy and to trust myself.

Volume: What influences your practice outside of the studio?

Mckeever: interior design, architecture, the history of pattern, plants, typography, and visual identity design

Volume: What kind of work are you currently making?

Mckeever: I gather and obfuscate materials, unhinging their form and function so that they remain accessible and emotive, but in an unfamiliar or odd way. By removing their context I hope to blur the boundaries between representation and resemblance to explore how we organize and perceive. They’ve been taking form as a hybrid between painting and sculpture.

Volume: for more work and information visit Stacia’s website at www.staciamckeever.com