About | Whitney Stoker

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Education:

Tufts University, BS in Biopsychology & minor in Studio Art

Class of 2027

Bio:

Whitney Stoker is a printmaker, painter, and illustrator born in Los Angeles, California in 2004. She currently studies at Tufts University, pursuing a degree in Biopsychology and a minor in studio art. Stoker was primarily self-taught in painting and drawing until taking classes at Tufts’ School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where she learned skills in printmaking and large-scale drawing. Stoker’s work has been featured in the Boston Printmakers Student Exhibition 2024, the SMFA Print and Paper Exhibition 2024, the Eco Arts Exhibition 2024, and received the Member’s Choice Award in the 2023 Los Angeles Congressional Art Competition. Stoker was also previously a TA for SMFA’s Intro to Print class, working alongside Professor Kelsey Miller.

Artist's Statement:

My research in psychology inspires my pieces, which act as an expression of my experiences with relationships and connection to place. Most often, I transform my own photographs into figurative moments with multi-layer relief prints, oil on wood panel and canvas, graphite, charcoal, chalk, and colored pencil. My landscapes in particular preserve my coming-of-age memories in the untouched wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where I spend my summers and Coastal Maine where I attended an outdoor-immersive semester school. Additionally, I’m inspired by the changing light and shadows that are cast on and within buildings, especially the striking silhouettes of the walls, windows, railings, and their respective shadows in my home in Los Angeles. My work, ranging from photorealistic to abstract, explores how these temporary scenes and elements in combination with color and transparency can act as a vessel for defining the mood of a memory.