ELENA STONAKER

Elena Stonaker (b.1985) is a multi-media artist working in interactive textile installation, painting, sculpture, design,animation, and participatory audience experiences. Inspired by crossover in global mythologies,  a wide variety of healing and self-discovery disciplines and our spiritual relationship to the natural world, Stonaker creates hyper-feminine surreal worlds based on archetypal visual language. Using (literal) softness, beauty, comfort and a touch of cheekiness shecreates unexpectedand highly tactile safe spacestoreimagine our relationship to shadow, discomfort, even death.

Stonaker studied fine art and writing at Pratt Institute in NYC and Colorado State University. Shehas exhibited and been recognized throughout the United States as well asinternationally. Most notably was her large-scale installation in 2019 at Tasmania’s renowned MuseumofOld and New Art. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.