ABOUT 

Stacey Warnix is an American lyrical abstraction painter who uses gestural methods to create large-scale, color-forward paintings. Her practice explores the experiential affect of nuanced color and scale, employing disparate materials and dimensional layering to subtly shift the perception, light reflectivity, and luminosity of gestural fields of color. 

Introduced young to representational oil painting by an artist grandmother, Stacey was an active creator through her formative years, but ultimately pursued a career in law and finance, working in California and London before moving to Texas, where she started painting again. Struggling with autoimmune disease, infertility, and miscarriages, Stacey experimented with gestural abstraction and became enamored with the process as a meditative escape, finding respite in the abstract forms, textures, and tones – and a means to quietly process the isolation and sorrow. 

Stacey builds color with extensive layering of transparent washes and inks, yielding nuanced color and nonfigurative form.  Palette selections reference time-worn, hazy memories of light-filled vistas along the California coastline, Europe, and the Texas Hill Country – the places that shaped her. Over nearly 10 years of painting with renewed purpose and appreciation, Stacey’s paintings evoke the emotional, hazy residue of remembered spaces, offering sentimental moments for pause, reflection, and quiet emotional connection.

ART STATEMENT

Stacey's large-scale paintings evoke the emotional residue of remembered places while resisting literal representation. Working intuitively using a deliberately-restrained range of pigments, poured gravitational flows, and gestural mark making, she paints immersive fields of color where places and moments are memorialized as atmosphere, light, temperature, and tone.

She starts each painting with a singular chromatic intention, rather than a predetermined composition. The goal: a color to be felt,  not an image to be remembered. Believing that color can carry us somewhere representation cannot, Warnix prioritizes the color experience over imagery. By removing form, she quiets the visual noise.

Working in both gestural abstraction and color field, Warnix allows each composition to unfold through a balance of intuition and surrender. She manifests a nuanced color experience by embracing a wide range of media and dimensional layering, building thin veils of translucent, hand-mixed pigments layer by layer through successive pours and interventions to create surfaces rich in depth, luminosity, and light reflectivity.

Rather than documenting specific locations, Warnix explores the distant, time-worn impression of having occupied them. Vague landscape references dissolve into an openly contemplative experience. Scale plays an essential role in this encounter, drawing the viewer beyond observation into immersion, where color is felt as much as it is seen. Here, in her hands, color becomes not merely an element of painting but its central experience, where viewers can linger in quiet moments of presence, reflection, and emotional resonance.