Lily Stockman (b. 1982, Providence, RI; lives and works in Los Angeles and Yucca Valley, CA) draws from her affinity for the natural world and interest in the organizing principles of structure –from poetry meter to musical form– to create arrangements of biomorphic shapes, planes, and borders. Building her linen surfaces up in layers of luminous oil, she references and borrows from the palette of Fra Angelico’s 15th-century frescoes, the line work of 18th-century Rajput miniature paintings, and the compositions of 19th-century “gift drawings” made by Shaker women, among other influences, to establish her distinctive and highly personal vernacular of abstraction and felicity with color. Her passion for the landscapes that so deeply inform her work connects her to a lineage of American abstractionists devoted to their chosen geographic and spiritual terrain, from Agnes Martin’s Desert Southwest, to Forrest Bess’s Gulf Coast, and Myron Stout’s New England coastline. 

Stockman has recently exhibited with Charles Moffett and Cheim & Read, New York; Timothy Taylor, London; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and Maki Gallery, Tokyo. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.