Christine Sloan Stoddard

Silver Stove on Rooftop#

Artist’s Statement#

I love a good trompe de l’oeil. But I also love ideas about what’s low-brow or even garbage. Living in the gritty parts of Brooklyn, I’ve played around with objects and scenery from my own environment. I found this play stove on the street and spray-painted it to fit my heavenly silver rooftop. Then I made this photograph. I purposely want this image to be a little tricky to parse.

Plasticine Bath#

Artist’s Statement#

In my process, I’m not always sure what I’m making, but I enjoy improvising. I settled on a composition that hinted at passing time and the tension between the past and future. I hope the viewer feels both playfulness and loneliness in this image.

About the Artist#

Christine Sloan Stoddard is a multimedia creator and artist; she was named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People and Style Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40 of Richmond, Virginia. She co-hosts the comedy TV show Don’t Mind If I Don’t with Aaron Gold, and runs the YouTube channel Stoddard Says via her production company, Quail Bell. Her artwork, fiction, and poetry have been featured in the Queens Botanical Garden, Portland Review, Ms. Magazine, So to Speak, Jimson Weed, The Brooklyn Quarterly, and beyond. Stoddard is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, The City College of New York-CUNY, and VCUarts Cinema.