Paula Stoeke is an internationally exhibited and collected artist producing works in the media of painting and photography. Her solo exhibition sites include galleries in Palermo, Sicily, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Hope Sound, Florida, Rome, Italy, and Hollywood, California. Works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions in the US and overseas. She resides in Los Angeles.
Available book titles include:
Hovering, Afterglow, Myth & Memory, The Tempest Series, and Rites of Passage.
Lectures and Curatorial: University of Southern California, Visions and Voices, Life of a Creative, American Institute of Architects, The Urban Land Institute, International Sculpture Biennale of Rome.
The Tempest Series
“Paula Stoeke's work explores the territory between the visceral sensation of landscape and the transformation of abstraction. Her canvases bring the emotional content of a storm - both internal and external - into sharper view. They exude a warmth that emanates often from the painting's core, employing vivid color and carved pockets of depth.
The images connote a vastness relating sometimes to the cosmos, and at others the patient shimmering of water's reflection. In this body of work, her handling of the pigments has evolved from earlier series to a more loose approach, while still integrating a drive for compositional unity and organization. This gives The Tempest Series paintings an appealing combination of vibrancy and calm.” - C. Stewart, Art Collections, Inc.
"Through much of this series I painted without brushes, using my hands and fingers. It was a closer connection with the canvas, the simple pushing of color and tactile blending. The resulting images give me a feeling of disruption leading to resolution. And that I've lived in, visited, these spaces myself physically."
-Paula Stoeke
