Stephanie Jucker

Stephanie Jucker is an exhibiting artist who uses mixed media and printing techniques in her paintings, books and art installations. Originally from London, where she earned her BFA, Stephanie has an MFA from Syracuse in painting, printmaking and ceramics. She is currently exhibiting at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco and teaches at College of Marin, San Francisco Center for the Book, and University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery.

Surrounded by moats of water the figures in my recent work seem protected but isolated, much as I have felt since the beginning of the pandemic. Part fortress part reliquary their citadel-like bodies are marked with the effects of climate change, and there is evidence of a battle between science and superstition.

Not only humans are affected by this global upheaval but animals flee their barns and seek higher ground, strange hybrid creatures emerge (watch out for Pizzly bears!) and the landscape is damaged by extremes of fire or flood.

Keys hint at a cure but the protagonists must choose carefully what to unlock and who to let in.