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About

Stevie Spurgin is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Houston. She earned her BA in Film, Television, and Digital Media with an emphasis in special effects makeup from Texas Christian University. She is an interdisciplinary artist from Marfa, Tx and currently lives and works in Houston, Tx. She is a creator, a maker, a thinker and an avid story teller.

I challenge the societal standards of the “normal,” “beautiful,” and “gross,” focusing on what we typically cast away. investigate marks, stains, residue, and actions produced by the absence or presence of the body. Conversations are created between the grotesque and the lovely by using materials such as used makeup wipes, sweat excretion, my hair, dark chocolate, gold leaf, and gold embroidery thread. 

 

The stains on a t-shirt tell a story, markers of time. 

 

A napkin fixes food mistakes, wearing its tasks on its body. 

 

Permanent tattoos born at birth, decorating with needle-less pigments.  

 

My transformed objects undergo make-overs through the labor of repetitive actions, documentation, and mark-making that leave the work “glammed-up,” “magnified,” and sprinkled with the abject to isolate the language we use around beauty.  

Social Media Handle: @stevie.spurgin