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About the Artist

Artist Statement

Stephanie (McDermaid) Maurer is a Seattle-based visual artist working in oil paint on canvas. Her early work employed a traditional/representational technique. Her current work portrays the colors and textures of life, including the human figure, portraiture, interiors, and landscapes.

Portraiture and Figurative Work

Her portraiture/figurative work uses representational painting as a starting point to explore the complexities of the human form. She is interested in the play of light and shadow on the human body and uses saturated colors to engage the viewer.

Landscape and Interior Work

In her textural landscape and interior paintings, she aims to bring the feeling of being in nature or at home to the canvas. Thickly applied paint creates shadows, giving shapes a life of their own.

Overall Themes

Her paintings invite viewers to consider what the world would look like without preconceptions about gender roles and how paint can represent life in various aspects. She aims to capture the vibrancy of life, including light on the human form, sunlight on snowy peaks, and reflections on the ocean's surface.

Influences

Masters, such as Monet, inspire her use of color in her painting palettes.

Artist Biography

Stephanie Maurer, a visual artist based in Seattle, aims to depict the vitality of life through vivid color and the interaction of light and shadow. She employs a thick, textured application of paint to enliven her subjects, whether human figures, interiors, or landscapes. An emerging artist, she has studied at Gage Academy of Art and is currently pursuing atelier training.

Originally from Minneapolis, Maurer relocated to the West Coast at age six, and her initial encounter with the Pacific Ocean and its sunset hues sparked a lifelong fascination with vibrant colors, which she integrates into her art.

Notably, Maurer has a history of community engagement, serving on an Arts Foundation board for 25 years and contributing to the Pilchuck Glass School's Auction Committee since 2017.

Her work has been featured in the:

• Fusion Art, Colors 2025 exhibition

• Fusion Art, Figures and Faces exhibition, 2025

• Light Space & Time, Landscapes exhibition, 2025

  
  

• Art Collide, Open Theme exhibition, 2025

• Blue Koi Gallery, Vibrant Colors, 2025

• Gallery Ring, Alive, 2025, Ruby Award