Kate Stone

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

I work across installation, sculpture and animation, using mixed media to construct domestic environments in the midst of transformation. Drawing on processes like petrification and calcification, I fuse architectural, bodily and geologic forms to imagine physical manifestations of our inner experiences. I think of my sculptures as abstracted figures overtaken by preternatural forces. They imagine our homes as porous and sponge-like, absorbing the residue of our lives and developing lives of their own. The accumulation of cells, crumbs and bodily fluids, imbued with anxiety, sadness or joy coalesces into growths that blur the line between architecture and the body. Drawing from mythology, science and horror tropes, my installations examine the cognitive dissonance of consuming external horrors from the (dis)comfort of our homes, mediated through screens. Animations are embedded in sculptures which occupy installations that are layered with light, sound and smell to create full sensory experiences.

Artwork

• Heartswell, 2025. Found furniture, paper pulp, leather, plaster, polymer clay, wire, curtains, carpet, sconce, mirror, acrylic paint
• The Longing of Slow Accumulations, 2023. Wool, carpet, baby teeth, mom and dad’s hair, wire, polyurethane foam, wood
• Doomscroll, 2022. Carpet, found furniture, wool, 40hz bulb, single-channel video, cell phone, plaster, joint compound, wax, epoxy clay, polyurethane foam, flex paste, wire, wood, acrylic paint
• More Room for Superstition, 2026. Graphite on paper
• The Vast Unseen, 2026. Graphite on paper
• Twin, 2026. Graphite on paper
• Dream House, 2024. Recycled paper and cardboard, single-channel hand-drawn animation, epoxy clay, plaster, acrylic paint
• Headwaters, 2022. 4k stop-motion animation
• Home is a Place Where a Human Lives, 2022. Carpet, wool, wire, wood, polyurethane foam, epoxy clay, acrylic paint
• Dust Bunnies and Mineral Patience, 2020. Carpet, wool, wire, wood
• The Timekeeper, 2023. Found chairs, wool, baby teeth, fake teeth, mom and dad’s hair, polyurethane foam, wire
• The Unknown Grins at Us from Deep Within and Deep Without, 2023. Carpet, fake teeth, wood
• Soft Tectonics #1-3 (Lost Pin), 2023. Wool, aluminum, found enamel pin, polyurethane foam, joint compound, wire, wood, acrylic paint
• American Magic and Dread, 2023. Wool, tile, mom's gold crown, tooth box, wire, polyurethane foam, wood
• The Dancing Ground, 2023. 4k stop-motion animation
• Insides, 2020. Stop-motion and hand-drawn animation
• Strange Loops (A Gathering Storm in Four Dimensions), 2020. Stop-motion animation