Abbey Stace is a painter and mixed media artist who lives and works in Philadelphia and Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work sits comfortably within contemporary abstraction while maintaining an intimate connection to nature and materiality. Stace seeks to engage in the modern tradition of experimentation by embracing a lack of control. She builds each piece in layers, allowing her materials to initiate the composition, textures and colors while guiding them toward formal balance. 

 

In an era increasingly dominated by speed and a desire to control our experience, Stace’s

slow, process-oriented approach invites viewers to pause, observe, and contemplate. Each piece is an exercise in the appreciation of entropy and an expression of our interdependence with nature. Fundamental to her practice is the notion that the world is governed by chance. Her work is inspired by objects in nature that have been shaped by the interactions of elements and matter over time. These chance interactions create unexpected texture, color and beauty. Her pieces are about time and memory and the accumulation of materials that build a particular ecosystem, both in the world and in the mind.

 

Stace has exhibited internationally and her work is part of private collections all over the world.