Everyday Life.
Stephanie Bradshaw explores the quiet profundity of everyday life, drawing on a wealth of art history inspiration, longstanding personal rituals, and deep reflection from a life built upon finding beauty and meaning in the ordinary.
Her work dwells in familiar moments and overlooked objects, elevating them through personal connection, emotional resonance, and a slow, intuitive process that transforms the seemingly mundane into the magically poetic.
Everyday life is art.
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Everyday life is art. •
Inspect some of Stephanie’s art, including lots of work in progress.
As an art historian, Stephanie values highlighting the historical precedents and inspirations that inform her work. This not only honors the lineage she’s engaging with but also grounds her challenges to artistic norms within a thorough, established context.
3. Influences
The Artist
Stephanie Bradshaw’s work grows out of a wide variety of interdisciplinary disciplines…
including a lifelong curiosity and observation of the quiet rituals of everyday life. Her rich arts background spans garment and pattern design, drawing and painting, writing, mentorship, art history, and much more - all of which inform an instruction and studio practice focused on revealing the resonance in familiar and ordinary things.
She is a member of the part time faculty at both Fresno State and State Center Community College District, where she is also an instructional designer. Recent exhibitions include Looking Forward Looking Back, a solo show at Clovis College (2022), and Thresholds in Parameters of What it is to be…at Fresno State (2023). Her most recent solo exhibition was Looking Forward Looking Back, at Clovis College (2022).