Stephanie Henderson has worked in both the fine and commercial art worlds for over 30 years
and has received numerous awards and honors. She has exhibited her paintings in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. She received her formal education at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University, where she earned her MFA degree.
Her work has appeared in many publications such as dream journals by Marcel Schurman, cards by Bottman Design, books such as Claus Brusen’s imaginaire series, Marcel Salome’s Dreamscapes, Faye Dowling’s curation The Book of Skulls, and magazines such as Charles Hively’s Creative Quarterly….
Stephanie has been commissioned by Roseanne Barr’s Full Moon High Tide Productions Inc., Julie Andrews Edwards and Harper Collins, Laura Childs and Berkeley Publishing Group, Simon & Schuster, Prentice Hall, Multnomah Books, Llewellyn Publications, Penguin/Putnam, and Celestial Seasonings.
Her most recent work is a continuing thread begun wither her contemporary vanitas paintings.
The binary oppositions used in her paintings address the values of our culture as well as abstract concepts of time and space. The meticulous glazing technique employed gives the paintings a vivid sense of realism. Lately she has been combining illusionist techniques with the flattening of the picture plane. She has become increasingly interested in using pattern as a formal element.
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