Stacy J Platt

The kind of work that I make now revolves around stories about stories. Sometimes the stories are my own, sometimes they are multiple versions of those same stories, told as if happening in parallel universes. I love other people’s stories too, and being able to elide my story within a larger compilation of those. That is what my series #exvangelical is about. I’m now in middle age, with both of my parents deceased, and I have an eleven-year-old daughter. I am interested in origin stories, and how they expand and contract based on who’s doing the telling, how many times it’s been told, and how the story shifts based on the teller’s shifting relationship to themselves. I’ve begun to make images about the stories I’ve been told, especially by my parents, and the images both re-enact those stories while also questioning their veracity (see work in progress).

I received my B.A. in Humanities from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and my M.F.A. in Photography from Columbia College of Art in Chicago. My work has been shown at the Houston Center for Photography, the Midwest Center for Photography, the University of North Dakota’s Memory, Bone and Myth exhibit, many online curated projects and exhibitions, and I was a 2015 Critical Mass finalist. I teach art and writing at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and am a contributing writer to Hyperallergic, First American Art Magazine and DARIA. I have been crafting longform essays at http://www.the-space-in-between.com since 2004.