About

“Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.”
― Wassily Kandinsky

“There was no haughtiness in him. He pledged himself to a humble and difficult beauty that he could oversee, summon and direct. The other beauty, the great beauty, had to come when everything was prepared, as animals come to a drinking-place in the forest in the late night when nothing foreign is there.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke on August Rodin

Background

Stacy Caldwell lives, works, and paints in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she inherited a love of the fields, hills, rivers, and streams from generations of Mennonite farmers. The journey into painting began while working at a local university where she spent evenings studying painting, drawing, and art history.

In 2018 a three-week residency in an historic dune shack on the Outer Cape of Massachusetts became an especially transformative experience. More recently, five months of pandemic isolation correlating with the mentorship of E.M. Saniga has had an important impact.

In 2021, inspired by the journal drawings of François Dupuis, Stacy committed to her own daily practice using charcoal in a Moleskine journal and drawing from surprise encounters, memories, and the fleeting images of daily life.

Currently, Stacy works full-time and devotes most evenings, weekends, and lunch breaks to going outside and painting.

Artist’s CV (pdf)

2024
The Drawing Room, Vardan Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (invitational group exhibit)
Ecosystem, Gallery 360, Roanoke, VA (invitational group exhibit)
Daily Encounters, Oxford Arts Alliance, Oxford PA (solo show)
Emergence: Exploring the Art of Transformation, North Museum, Lancaster, PA (invitational group exhibit)
Moments of Atmosphere, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA (invitational group exibit)

2023
Prelude, Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA (invitational group exhibit)
Northeast Deconstructed, Pulp Holyoke, Holyoke, MA (invitational group exhibit)
Oxford Art Alliance 9th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Oxford, PA (Juror, Stuart Shils)
In Depth, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA (invitational group exhibit)

2022
Art at Kings Oaks, Newtown, PA (invitational group exhibit)
Undercover Artists Uncovered, Ware Center, Lancaster, PA (invitational group exhibit)

2021
Winslow Art Center, Winter National Online Juried Exhibition

2020
Oxford Arts Alliance 6th Annual National Juried Exhibition (Juror, Steven Harvey)

2018
Provincetown Community Compact Artists’ Residency (three weeks in an historic dune shack)
Artists’ Collaboration for Kids with Cancer, Lancaster PA (curator, project organizer)
56th Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

2017
55th Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

2015
The Arch, Lancaster, PA (two person show)
Steeple View Lofts, Lancaster PA
The Pop-Up Gallery, Block Island, RI
        
2014
The Landscape Juried Exhibition, Gallery360, Lancaster PA
52nd Annual Open Art Award Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Déjà Vu Gallery, Block Island, RI
        
2013
Ralph's, Slaymaker Building, Lancaster PA
Déjà Vu Gallery, Block Island, RI
51st Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
        
2011
The Candy Factory, Lancaster PA - Group Invitational Show (curator)

2010
Isaac's, Lancaster PA (solo exhibit)

2009
47th Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Art and Music Festival, Marion Court Room, Lancaster PA