Katy Stone “Light Currents”

RYAN LEE

[Image: Katy Stone "Planet (Violet Hour)" (2020) Oil on aluminum, 57 x 57 x 1 1/2 in. Edition of 2.]

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RYAN LEE presents Light Currents, an exhibition of new work by Katy Stone. Stone is known for her dynamic multi-layered installations that range in scale from the small and intimate to monumental public commissions. Continuing to work with duralar, aluminum, and dichroic plastic, Stone’s latest body of work pushes the limits of her industrial materials and probes the ethereality of her subject matter.

Stone draws on a variety of conceptual source material: early twentieth-century abstraction, the Light and Space movement, and Immanence theory. Her materials allow for an exploration of geometric abstraction that is grounded in form, yet is expansive and mutable. In Sun/Circle 2 (2019) strips of painted duralar rectangles are arranged in multiple layers to create a near-perfect circle. The resulting image is as much a combination of its geometric elements as the light it reflects and the shadows it casts. It is at once translucent and solid, evoking celestial energy through terrestrial forms. Light, time, cosmic forces, and natural phenomena become literal and metaphorical guides for Stone’s artistic meditations.