Artist Statement
I am a multimedia sculptor inspired by ecology and emotional fluidity. Through exploration of cycles and materiality, my abstract pieces examine the ephemeral and the permanent. Much of my work deals with navigating trauma and acknowledging what it feels like in the body to move on. Through materials such as steel, wire, ice, and fiber, I use my work to question ‘What it is to imagine? To think of and embody freedom? To construct a world where borders and limits are methods of freedom instead of entrapments’.
About
Stella Hendricks is a multimedia artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her primary mediums include sculpture and photography and she graduated from Towson University in 2020 with a B.S. in Art+Design. Her work is inspired by liminal spaces of perception and nature. She enjoys art for its healing properties including its ability to question norms, connect with deeper parts of the psyche, and inspire a sense of freedom.
Stella has participated as a research assistant on curatorial projects including those at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. and the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she was a Souls Grown Deep Intern. She aims to help develop community art spaces for women and non-binary people of color that center around healing and self-expression.
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Selected Group Shows and Exhibitions
Current and Upcoming:
Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY November 13-December 19, 2025
Entangled, East End Arts, Riverhead, October 7-November 3, 2025
Unfinished Woman, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth October 9- November 1, 2025
The Book as Art, Views Art Center, Old Forge, NY May 24, 2025 - July 27, 2025
Artists in Action Exhibit, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD May 15- June 9, 2025
Art Maryland, Howard County Center for the Arts, Howard County, MD October 11- November 16, 2024
Art of Accumulation, Cade Gallery, Arnold, MD, April 24-May 22 2024
Looks Good on Paper, Gallery One, Ellensburg, Washington March 1-March 30 2024
Quiet as it's Kept , Trolley Barn Gallery, The Art Effect Poughkeepsie, NY October 6-November 10 2023
Abstract Only 13th Annual Juried Exhibition Waiola Center Hilo, HI August 4-September 14 2023
Edward Mitchell Bannister National Exhibition: Celebrating BIPOC Artists Providence Art Club, Providence, RI June 14-July 14 2023 ︳Antonio Cirino Award
Pride, Porticio Gallery, Brentwood, MD June 19-September 11 2021
Daybreak, Triple Crown Towson, Baltimore, MD April 24-May 6th, 2021
Senior Exhibition, Towson University, Towson, MD May 2020
The Witching Hour, Nefarious Contemporary Baltimore, MD October 2019
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Towson University, Holtzman MFA Gallery, Center for the Arts, Towson, MD May 10 - May 23 - 2019
Reflections, City of Bowie Arts Committee, Bowie City Hall, Bowie MD January 16, 2019- February 15, 2019
8th Regional Juried Biennial Exhibition, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach, DE September 7 - October 13 - 2018
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Towson University, Holtzman MFA Gallery, Center for the Arts, Towson, MD April 20 - May 12 - 2018
Art in the Garden, 18th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Townsend Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE April 20, 2018 - May 11, 2018
Education and Residencies
2025 Annmarie Sculpture Garden Artists in Action
2020 Towson University Art+Design Sculpture, B.S.
Speaking Engagement and Conference Presentations
"Curators in Conversation", Minneapolis Institute of Art, January 2021
"BMA Violet Hour: Gee’s Bend Quilting Bee, History of Gee’s Bend", Baltimore Museum of Art, March 2021
'Reframing What it Means to be an Outsider: Art from the Rural South', Celebration of Scholarship and Learning, Second Place Award, Towson University, 2020
"Narrative and Power: Women’s Representation in Museums,' Celebration of Scholarship and Learning, Second Place Award, Towson University, 201