Stephanie Toppin

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Solo Shows

2009 Oneself by Oneself, Box 13 Artspace

2009 Monthly Artist: May, Superhappyfunland

Group Shows

2009 Recent Work, Rudolph Projects Artscan Gallery

2009 Fringe Festival, Freneticore

2009 $timulus, D!verseworks

2009 Broken Hearts: Erotic Art Show: Aerosol Warfare

2007 The Kindness of Strangers, The Helm Gallery

2005 Emerging Artist Show, The Jung Center
 

There is only one piece: an abstract self portrait in progress. A piece made up of smaller panels but displayed one after the other that is read left to right in the form of a timeline. An unbroken self portrait that serves as a record and a tool in communicating to ones self. A basic human interest to know or learn to know and understand our own individual language while striving to untangle and throw away the borders and hindrance of thought to a more instinctual, and in a way, natural honesty to ones self. An entire life is a self portrait, unbroken breath after breath that flows from one thought seamlessly to another. In the same way, each panel added to the whole may stand alone as one thought but needs the assistance of the panel that comes before and after to get an honest understanding of the entirety. A continuous ever expanding self portrait helps the viewer not quickly judge from one piece but helps them see a progression, change, and similarity. A personality. The viewer travels through all of someone.

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