AUDREY STONE
Audrey Stone received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Pratt Institute, both in painting. She studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was selected for the Artist in The Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2023 she attended the Surf Point Foundation artist residency in York, Maine.
Her work has been exhibited across the United States, as well as in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, England, France, Japan and South Korea. Recent Solo exhibitions include Winston Wachter, Seattle, WA; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY: Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT.
Stone has shown in group exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum, the Arkansas Art Center, The Columbus Museum, The Flinn Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Kentler International Drawing Space, McKenzie Fine Art, ODETTA Gallery, and Bernay Fine Art, among others.
Her work is in the collections of the Amateras Foundation, Charles Schwab Print Program, Cleveland Clinic, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley, NYU Langone, and New York Presbeterian Hospital, among others.
Stone is a member of the American Abstract Artists, a historic artist-run organization.
She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
When observing shifting color and light in nature, I find myself paradoxically experiencing both excitement and calm. I seek to bring that dynamic opposition into my work.
To create images that are simultaneously stimulating and serene, I employ subtle gradients of color in bands of varied widths. The color shifts become a sensory experience: I feel them in my body as vibrations.
As I create the gradients, I’m always thinking of visual pacing and rhythm: one color builds until it reaches the point where it feels fulfilled and another color is ready to be introduced. Although the pacing of the gradients requires measurement and mapping, I also make more intuitive choices as I work, turning every painting into a dance of the planned and unplanned.
That dance extends to the composition of my diptychs and multi-panel paintings. I often employ symmetry and reflection both within and between panels, but the finished works lend themselves to multiple compositional arrangements, some planned and others entirely unanticipated. Allowing for this element of chance is part of my ongoing internal dialogue about the concepts of control and expectation, both in my work and beyond.
2025