Hill&Stump Biography
Daphne Hill and Anna Stump are pleased to present their collaborative paintings. Acrylic color and metallics float between layers of epoxy resin on wood panel and plexiglass, creating depth and shifting brilliance. With references to Japanese motifs, Rococo foliage, gilt decoration, and Impressionism, the partners’ influences include Jakuchu, Watteau, O’Keefe, and the light and landscapes of Southern California.
Hill&Stump work together in their studio in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego, and are represented in Los Angeles by MLA Gallery, and in San Diego by Sparks Gallery and Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance. Ms. Hill earned her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Ms. Stump, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, earned her MFA at San Diego State University. Both artists teach studio and art history courses in the San Diego Community and the Grossmont/Cuyamaca College Districts, and Donovan State Correctional Facility.
Daphne Hill and Anna Stump are visual novelists, with their own stories to tell through the art they create. Working together as Hill&Stump, they produce not novels but poetry, in the form of floral portraiture.
Hill and Stump florals are best seen as symbolist poems, evoking flowers through patterns of color, and (more subtly) the glass of a vase through the surface gloss of resin.
Gloss is unexpected here – it's normally the property of a new sedan or surfboard, and their perfect even color. To pair gloss with expressive brushstrokes marks the genius of Hill&Stump in remaking a classic genre.
-Richard Gleaves, 2014
Collections include Ippolita Boutique in Abu Dhabi, Gerber & Co, Beverly Hills, and the Laemmle Theater Group.
Commissions gladly accepted.
Hill&Stump work together in their studio in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego, and are represented in Los Angeles by MLA Gallery, and in San Diego by Sparks Gallery and Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance. Ms. Hill earned her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Ms. Stump, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, earned her MFA at San Diego State University. Both artists teach studio and art history courses in the San Diego Community and the Grossmont/Cuyamaca College Districts, and Donovan State Correctional Facility.
Daphne Hill and Anna Stump are visual novelists, with their own stories to tell through the art they create. Working together as Hill&Stump, they produce not novels but poetry, in the form of floral portraiture.
Hill and Stump florals are best seen as symbolist poems, evoking flowers through patterns of color, and (more subtly) the glass of a vase through the surface gloss of resin.
Gloss is unexpected here – it's normally the property of a new sedan or surfboard, and their perfect even color. To pair gloss with expressive brushstrokes marks the genius of Hill&Stump in remaking a classic genre.
-Richard Gleaves, 2014
Collections include Ippolita Boutique in Abu Dhabi, Gerber & Co, Beverly Hills, and the Laemmle Theater Group.
Commissions gladly accepted.