Marcia Stuermer

Lives and works in San Francisco, CA, USA

Artist statement

Marcia Stuermer is a San Francisco multi-media artist who uses translucent resin as her primary medium to sample moments in time. Her alchemic explorations with hand-cast resin often incorporate intricate drawings influenced by her fascination with the natural, chemical, and biological worlds. She uses these microscopic cellular underpinnings, which she feels have a relevance to our contemporary milieu, as commentary on contemporary circumstances and topical issues. Central to her work are the elements of surprise, wonder and unforeseen beauty along with her desire to convert the commonplace to the sublime. Driven by an obsession for sustainability and a knack for alchemy, Stuermer often repurposes resin remnants from her studio along with custom resin castings and other unexpected elements to craft her intricate work. This is evidenced in her ongoing barcode series informed and inspired by the duality of nature + technology, where she riffs on the ubiquitous striped graphic of our contemporary, consumer-based world via a visual coding of sheer and textural resin strata. In her most recent body of work colored by the Covid19 pandemic and the hugely divisive sociopolitical environment, she uses inky black, highly polished hand-cast resin with botanical embedments and ethereal drawings to contrast the mood of the times with brighter hopes for the future. Her work is held in private and corporate collections in the San Francisco/Bay Area and throughout the US. In addition to...

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