Artist Statement
Constructed from furniture and other objects of the home, my assemblage-based sculptures and installations use the familiarity of the domestic to explore the uncertain relationship we have with control. With a do-it-yourself sensibility fueled by perpetually worried energy, I attempt to build solutions to problems that feel both minute and massive. Reorganizing the things within my grasp provides seemingly tangible solutions, however improvisational or impractical.
I am fascinated with the structures that form our world, both inside and outside of the home, particularly the ubiquity of modular organizational systems that impact our daily lives. The home is one of our most personal containers–a temporal site of past memory, current physicality, and future imaginings. By transforming familiar objects through tinkering, I explore how we can stretch our perceptions of the everyday, in order to create new ways of seeing the world. Constructed with care but precarity, my work questions our desire for control while acknowledging the likelihood that it may never be achieved.
Biographical Statement
Alice Stanne is a Boston-based artist who uses the domestic to explore our relationship with control through assemblage-based sculptures and installations. Her work is informed by her upbringing in the suburban Hudson Valley region of New York, and the transition to urban living in the city of Boston, MA.
Alice studied Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art & Design (BFA, 2011), where she became enamored of artist’s books as three dimensional forms. Her pursuit of an MFA in Studio Art (Maine College of Art & Design, 2025), has grown her work to include sculpture and installation art. Alice currently teaches classes at all levels, working regularly with the undergraduates at MassArt. Her work has been displayed at many fairs and exhibitions in New England including the Boston Art Book Fair, and unique spaces such as the Arnold Arboretum. Alice’s art is held in various libraries around Boston, as well as many personal collections.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Faculty Member
Illustration Dept.
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Book Arts
Sophomore Illustration
Continuing Education Program
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Artists' Books on the Vandercook Letterpress (co-taught with Keith Cross)
Workshop Instructor
Continuing Education Program
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Handmade Books
Summer Book Arts Workshop
University of Southern Maine
Filling the Page: Generating Visual Ideas for Artists’ Books
Summer Studios Instructor
Youth Programs
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Illustration Elective (for 11th & 12th graders)
Guest Critic
Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Interdisciplinary Studio, End of Semester Reviews (Art Education); Fall 2024
Senior Thesis Final Reviews (Illustration); Fall 2024, 2023
EDUCATION
BFA with Honors, Illustration
Massachusetts College of Art & Design, 2011
MFA, Studio Art
Maine College of Art & Design, ant. 2025
EXHIBITIONS
2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Maine College of Art & Design; Portland, ME; May 2025
Peach Fuzz
Maine College of Art & Design; Portland, ME; Summer 2024
Cape Bound
Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College; Barnstable, MA; Spring 2024
Building Books
Kate Cheney Chappell ‘83 Center for Book Arts, University of Southern Maine; Portland, ME; Spring 2023
Twiggs Gallery; Boscawen, NH; Summer 2024
The Art of Nature / The Nature of Art
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Boston, MA
Summer 2022
Wish You Were Here
Virtual Exhibit; September 2021
Building Communities Through Zines
Atlantic Wharf Gallery; Boston, MA; June 2021
Small Treasures
Lincoln Arts Project; Waltham, MA; December 2017 & 2019
Beyond the Book IX & X
Faneuil Branch of the Boston Public Library Brighton, MA; Winter 2015, 2016, 2019
Off-Hours: Annual MassArt Staff Show Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s President’s Gallery; Boston, MA
December 2012 - 2019, 2024
Illustration Faculty from MassArt
Gutman Library; Cambridge, MA; October 2012
Beyond Gluttony and Greed
Fourth Wall Gallery; Boston, MA; May 2011
Illustration Thesis Show
Fourth Wall Gallery; Boston, MA; February 2011
PUBLICATIONS
1,000 Artists’ Books:
Exploring the Book as Art
Sandra Salamony with Peter & Donna Thomas; published by Quarry Books
AWARDS
Illustration Departmental Honors
Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2011
Faculty Award
Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2011
COLLECTIONS
The W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library - School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Various personal collections
CONTRIBUTOR
MEMBER
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
NEBA, New England Book Artists
Interested in reaching out?
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