ON VIEW
April 18 – 16, 2025
May 8 – 17, 2025

OPENING RECEPTIONS
Friday, April 18, 5 – 7 pm
Thursday, May 8, 5 – 7 pm

Alice Stanne

www.alicestanne.com
@stannedbyme

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.

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. Towers of mismatched storage bins clamber atop one another on slender stilts rising to the ceiling. Pieces of a disassembled chair climb the walls, balanced delicately with ropes and string. Constructed with care but precarity, my work questions our desire for control while acknowledging the likelihood that it may never be achieved.

The MFA Thesis Exhibitions for the Class of 2025 incorporate a range of making practices unified by the overwhelming concerns these students have for their environment, their communities, their families, and their own wellbeing. With an emphasis on the personal, and at times the anecdotal, these 17 artists make a variety of contributions in the form of ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, prints, sculptures, sound and video installations, and textiles. The nature of their work and research demonstrates the caliber and cultural relevance of Maine College of Art & Design’s Masters in Fine Arts in Studio Art program.