STEPHANIE DOST
Stephanie Dost amasses a body of variously sized paintings, drawings, and photographs, both personal and found, into large, patch-worked grids. Though painting plays a role in her work, Dost is more of an installation artist painting with images rather than with paint itself. Consisting almost entirely of self-portraits and portraits of the artist's friends, Dost's grids elude a linear narrative and instead allow for a multifaceted portrait of the artist and her peers in the round. The artist's universe of images, in a multitude of repeated and reworked versions, evokes an advertisement technique of endless plastering yet also remains connected to painterly technique in its composition and assemblage. The different layers of Dost's installations, both technically and in content, combine for an overall effect evoking the vanities of the young.(Christian Ehrentraut 2009)