Stephanie Patton: Comfort Zone, 1993–2021

For her largest solo exhibition to date, multi-media artist Stephanie Patton brings works from across the span of her career, including pieces made from 1993 to 2021 in every discipline she's explored including: photography, performance art, sculpture, textiles, and more. The Acadiana Center for the Arts' exhibit, Stephanie Patton: Comfort Zone, 1993–2021 offers a significant survey of the vast body of the Lafayette-based artist's work, and explores its common threads of humor, love, health, and more. The works are often an invitation to lure the viewers into their own state of self-awareness, and Patton finds that creating humorous objects often breaks down barriers and allows for the beginning of an open and genuine dialog between her art, the audience and herself. 

Born in New Orleans, Patton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in leading galleries and art fairs in New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Miami and is held in many private and public collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Hilliard University Art Museum, and more. She currently lives and works as a practicing studio artist and educator in Lafayette. acadianacenterforthearts.org.