About
My paintings and drawings are a quiet response to the landscapes, creatures, and visual events of my surroundings. They are an attempt to give honor to the mysterious beauty that reveals itself unexpectedly in familiar places. For many years I have painted out in the landscape, mostly to be outside as much as possible and respond directly to nature. In 2021 I committed to a daily drawing practice, curious to see what could come from memory, imagination, design, and invention. Each morning a small charcoal drawing is coaxed from memories of actual events. I have recently begun attempting to translate these daily drawings to oil painting.
Background
Stacy Caldwell lives 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.
Artist’s CV (pdf)
Notable Awards
2024 Judge/Selection Panelist, Works on Paper, Hampstead Art Society, London
2018 Provincetown Community Compact Artists’ Residency
2026 (dates to be announced)
AK Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia
Pulp, Holyoke, MA
2025
To Land, By Sea, curated by Francis Cook Gallery at The Gallery at Diamond Cove, Great Diamond Island, ME (invitational group exhibit)
Paul Bowen & Co., Pulp, Holyoke, MA (three-person show)
Millport Artists Project, North Museum, Lancaster PA (invitational group exhibit)
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