Saturday and Sunday, 11am - 6pm
Interdisciplinary artist Stacia Yeapanis is both in love with objects and anxious about waste. In 2023, she launched Color Is My Dopamine, an umbrella under which she transforms the detritus of daily consumption and the materials from previous site-specific installations into one-of-a-kind home decor, accessories and gifts that prioritize color and texture. This new venture is an extension of her exhibition-driven work that explores the relationship between repetition, desire, suffering and impermanence in cross-stitch embroideries, remix videos, temporary collages and improvised, sculptural installations. Now, instead of installations that reference ritual sites and practices, she is creating sacred secular objects for everyday use.
Stacia is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at SAIC, where she earned her MFA in 2006 and won a Marion Kryczka Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. Her first monograph was published jointly by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2009. Yeapanis has been an Artist-in-Residence at Chicago Artists’ Coalition’s BOLT Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Facebook Chicago and Zócalo Apartments in Houston, Texas. Her solo exhibitions include shows at Siena Heights University (Michigan 2013), Heaven Gallery (Chicago 2014), Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis 2017), Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery (Palos Hills, Illinois 2018) and Kent State, Stark (North Canton, Ohio 2019), Finlandia University (Hancock, Michigan 2020) and Material Exhibitions (Chicago 2022).
