Stevie Love lives surrounded by nature in an adobe house that she and her husband made by hand on the north-facing slope of the San Gabriel Mountains high above the Western Mojave Desert. Her paint-sculpture hybrids are inspired by intense energy, joy, nature, visual culture, and being open to experiment.
Love’s philosophy builds on the early Modernists’ belief in artmaking as a spiritual practice and extends it into everyday contemporary life, and to that end she is practicing metaphysics in the studio. She professes an addiction to acrylic paint for its ability to make three-dimensional sculptural forms, and her tools include squeeze bottles and pastry tubes. The addition of faux fur and faux gems brings a funky sense of surprise and humor. Esteemed writer and critic, Peter Frank, characterized the work as “the crass and the cosmic”.
Love’s work has been featured in private and public spaces across the U.S., and in Asia, and Europe, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, and the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
Contact: love.stevie@gmail.com
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Website https://www.stevielove.com
Interview: http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-stevie-love-studio-north-la-high-desert/
Review: http://diversionsla.com/stevie-love-textural-wall-sculptures-blooming-with-color/
Artsy Shark Featured Artist: https://www.artsyshark.com/2018/08/06/featured-artist-stevie-love/
SaatchiArt page: https://www.saatchiart.com/stevieslove
Art Slant page: https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/121357-stevie-love
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Works on Paper, Cycladic Arts, Alyki, Paros, Greece.
2024 The Crass and the Cosmic, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, California.
2023 John Wayne International Airport, Terminal C, Orange County, California.
2022 Ontario International Airport, Terminal 2, Ontario, California.
Joy at the Center, Launch LA, Los Angeles, California.
2021 Aftermath, Metro Gallery, Pomona, California.
2020 New Paintings. Norco College Gallery, Q. Bemiller, curator, Norco, CA.
2019 Paint Objects. Metro Gallery, Pomona, California.
2017 Unreal. Metro Gallery, Pomona, California.
Off Axis. Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California.
2016 Metaphysics. Andlab Gallery, Los Angeles.
2015 A Thing for Paint. Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, California.
Metaphysical Humors, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy.
2014 Cell Theory. Bunny Gunner Gallery, Claremont, California.
2013 Delusional. Groundspace Project, Los Angeles.
2012 Paint Skins. Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California.
2006 Sequence. Andlab Gallery, Los Angeles.
2003 Fluid Jam. Robert V. Fullerton Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, Calif.
2002 Previous Incarnations. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
Selected Group Exhibitions and Awards
2026 POV. Korean Cultural Center and Launch LA, Los Angeles, California.
Spectrum Gestalt. bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
We're Very Well Read, It's Well Known. Mural Conservancy of LA, Los Angeles, California.
Beckoning the Crone. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California.
2025 Old Broads Tenth Anniversary Exhibit. Antelope Valley College Rich Sim Gallery, Lancaster, California.
Hot, Hot, Hot. Bunny Gunner and Studio C, Claremont, California.
40th Juried. Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California.
Diverted Distraction. Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, California.
The Versatility of Pulp. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
2024 Wanderlust: All Passports. Dr. Kostas Prapoglou, curator, Schliemann-Melas Gallery, Athens, Greece,
Desert Forest: Life With Joshua Trees. Getty PST Art & Science Collide, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California.
2023 Made in California. City of Brea Gallery, Brea, California. Seeing Red, Women's Caucus for Art. Heffler Contemporary, Cathedral City, California.
Intersect Palm Springs Art Fair. Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, Calif.
2022 Surrealism Now. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California.
OB West. Roswell Space, Los Angeles, California.
Play Time at The Makery. Los Angeles, California.
Legacy Show. RAFFMA Museum, Cal State University, San Bernardino, California.
Embrace. Mukenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California.
2021 Reflection. Korean Cultural Center and Launch LA, Los Angeles, California.
Made in California. Brea Gallery, Brea, California.
36th Annual Juried Exhibition. Lancaster Museum of Art and History.
NOMAD. Sponsored by Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, Californa.
2021 Virtual Exhibit. Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, California.
Even Sparkles Have Shadows. Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California.
2020 Purchase Prize. 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA.
Made in California. City of Brea Gallery, Brea, California.
Bouquet. Roswell Space, Los Angeles, California.
StARTup Art Fair. The Venice Kinney, Venice, California.
Collaborate and Create. Loft at Liz’s, A. Campognone curator, Los Angeles, CA.
Curious Compendium. Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA.
2019 Selections from the Permanent Collection. Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA.
Paintings From the Interior. UCR ArtsBlock, Andi Campognone, Curator, Riverside, CA.
Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art. Juried. Los Angeles, California.
Old Broads. Bunny Gunner and Studio C, Claremont, California.
Artist & Researcher 3. USC Keck School of Medicine, Ted Meyer, Curator, Los Angeles.
2018 Volumen et Rotulus. Rearte Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
Music for Your Eyes. Peter Frank curator, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.
Untitled. Paige Wery curator, Artshare LA, Los Angeles.
2017 Los Angeles Painting: Formalism to Street Art. Bruno David Gallery, St.Louis, Missouri.
A Flag Flying Over A Smoking Battlefield. Mat Gleason, curator, AXIS, Sacramento. CA.
Volumen et Rotulus. Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy.
Blue Mountain Gallery, Priscilla Vail Caldwell, curator, New York, New York.
2015 Artslant prize winner. Los Angeles.
2013 Award. Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, International Competition, Los Angeles.
YES. Wini Brewer, curator. Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles.
2012 Artslant prize winner. Los Angeles.
FRESH. Museum of Contemporary Art auction, Los Angeles,.
2011 Energy. Howard N Fox, curator, Orange County Ctr for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana CA.
Nip. Habib Kheradyar, curator, Post Gallery, Los Angeles.
Chain Letter. Doug Harvey, curator, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
TelArtPhone. Mat Gleason, curator, Beacon Arts, Inglewood, California.
2008 Gwangwhamoon International Art Festival. Seoul, Korea, and Beijing, China.
2007 Pillow Talk. Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles.
2006 Hallways. EJ Hauser, Curator, 139 Plymouth, Brooklyn, New York.
Painting’s Edge. Roland Reiss, curator. Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, California.
2005 All California Exhibit. Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California.
Curator’s Award. Peter Frank, curator. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
2004 Uncharted Terrain. SOKA University, Aliso Viejo, California.
2002 Off the Wall. Mat Gleason, curator, Coagula Projects, Los Angeles.
Curator’s Award. Jim Reed, curator, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
2001 Macro Surface. Mat Gleason, curator, Coagula Projects, Los Angeles.
All About Abstraction. Roland Reiss curator’s award, Angels Gate, San Pedro, California.
1999 Los Angeles National Exhibition. Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Bibliography
Brown, Betty. Desert Forest, Life With Joshua Trees, Art and Cake, 10/31/23.
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PUBLIC Collections
Riverside Art Museum. Riverside, California.
Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California.
RESIDENCIES
2025 Cycladic Arts, Paros, Greece, Dimitra Skandali, Director.
2017 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy. Matilde Dolcetti, Director.
2015 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy. Matilde Dolcetti, Director.
2006 Painting's Edge, Idyllwild, California. Roland Reiss, Director.
2004 Painting's Edge, Idyllwild, California. Roland Reiss, Director.
Education MFA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.
BFA California State University, San Bernardino, California.