Ground Cover
lithography and collage on paper
30h x 22.5w in
Unique
Printed in collaboration with Obee Editions
Protection, 2024
Lithography and vinyl collage on paper
30h x 22.5w in
Unique
Printed in collaboration with Obee Editions
Red Flag, 2024
Lithography and collage on paper
30h x 22.5w in
Unique
Printed in collaboration with Obee Editions
Ripple Effect, 2024
lithography, collage, tracing paper, ink on paper
30h x 22.5w in
Unique
Printed in collaboration with Obee Editions
Smallholders, 2024
lithography on paper
30h x 22.5w in
Unique
Printed in collaboration with Obee Editions
Value Chain, 2024
lithography, graphite and stickers paper
30h x 22.5w in
Unique
Printed in collaboration with Obee Editions
Without, 2024
lithography on paper
30h x 22.5w in
Unique
Printed in collaboration with Obee Editions
Kirsten Stolle
Target, 2022
purple vinyl, transfer sticker on paper
13 x 37 in
Unique
KS_121
Kirsten Stolle
We Simply Had a Strong Belief, 2022
Orange vinyl, letterpress, ink on paper
13 x 67 in
Unique
KS_122
Kirsten Stolle
74,449,4520, 2022
Blue Vinyl, graphite on paper
13 x 54.5 in
Unique
KS_126
Kirsten Stolle
Kill, Fight, Battle, Control, Escalate, Eliminate, 2022
Pink vinyl, letterpress, ink on paper
13 x 51.5 in
Unique
KS_123
Kirsten Stolle
Seeds of Progress, 2022
Green vinyl, glitter on paper
13 x 48.5 in
Unique
KS_125
Kirsten Stolle
Rainbow, 2022
White vinyl, glitter, sticker on paper
13 x 25 in
Unique
KS_124
Kirsten Stolle
2, 4-D Weed Killer, 2022
Archival pigment print on dibond
44 x 44 in
Edition of 5
KS_111
Kirsten Stolle
Bayer Advanced, 2022
Archival pigment print on dibond
44 x 44 in
Edition of 5
KS_112
Kirsten Stolle
Double Roundup, 2022
Archival pigment print on dibond
44 x 44 in
Edition of 5
KS_113
Kirsten Stolle
Dow Shield, 2022
Archival pigment print on dibond
44 x 44 in
Edition of 5
KS_115
Kirsten Stolle
Dow Specialty Herbicide, 2022
Archival pigment print on dibond
44 x 44 in
Edition of 5
KS_116
Kirsten Stolle
Roundup Concentrate Plus, 2022
Archival pigment print on dibond
44 x 44 in
Edition of 5
KS_118
Dow Shield, 2022
from the series Pesticide Pop
Archival pigment print mounted to dibond
44 x 44 inches
Edition of 1
Roundup Extended Control, 2022
from the series Pesticide Pop
Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond
44 x 44 inches
Edition of 1
Fast Acting Round Up, 2022
Archival pigment print mounte to dibond
44 x 44 inches
Unique
Kirsten Stolle
Roundup Promax, 2022
Archival pigment print on dibond
44 x 44 in
Edition of 5
KS_120
Monsanto Whopping Nation, 2022
from the series Science for a Better Life
Collage on 1956 Monsanto advertisement
13.75 x 20 inches
Kirsten Stolle
The Grass Isn't Always Greener, 2022
Collage on 1950 Dow Chemical magazine advertisement
10.5 x 13.5 in
Unique
KS_132
Kirsten Stolle
Good Days, 2022
Collage on 1984 Bayer advertisement
11.5 x 16.5 in
Unique
KS_127
Good Good Days, 2022
from the series Science for a Better Life
Collage on 1984 Bayer advertisement
11.5 x 16.5 inches
Kirsten Stolle
No Land, 2022
Collage, burn holes, 1964 US Forest Service magazine advertisement
13h x 10w in
33.02h x 25.40w cm
Unique
KS_131
New Hunters, 2022
Collage on 1965 Monsanto magazine advertisement
11 x 8 inches (paper size)
Kirsten Stolle
Lost Crops 4, 2021
Collage, glitter and ink on paper
11 x 20.25 inches
Unique
Kirsten Stolle
Lost Crops 1, 2020
Collage, glitter, ink on paper
11 x 25.5 inches
Unique
Kirsten Stolle
Lost Crops 3, 2021
Collage, ink on paper
16.25 x 11 inches
Unique
Kirsten Stolle
Yield, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen on archival pigment print
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
Feed, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen on archival pigment print
8h x 10w in
20.32h x 25.40w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
Connecting the Dots, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen on archival pigment print
8h x 10w in
20.32h x 25.40w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
Dinner's Ready, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen on archival pigment print
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
What Goes on Here, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen and collage on archival pigment print
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
We Pledge to be Part of the Solution, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen on archival pigment print
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
Feed the Future, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen on archival pigment print
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
The Most Wanted, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Collage on archival pigment print
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
By the Ton (silkscreen), from the series By the Ton, 2016
Silkscreen and collage on archival pigment print
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
1 of 3
Kirsten Stolle
Improving Agriculture, 2016
Collage on archival pigment print
8h x 10w in
20.32h x 25.40w cm
Unique
Kirsten Stolle
Aniston, AL + Port of Texas City, TX, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Vintage postcard on archival pigment print
7.50h x 9.90w in
19.05h x 25.15w cm
Unique
Kirsten Stolle
Many Would Go, from the series By the Ton, 2016
Collage on paper
17h x 14w in
43.18h x 35.56w cm
Unique
Kirsten Stolle is a visual artist working in collage, drawing and mixed media. Her research-based practice is grounded in the investigation of corporate propaganda, environmental politics and biotechnology.
Kirsten was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1967, lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for 19 years, and currently lives in Western North Carolina. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, (San Jose, CA), Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, CA), and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, (Minneapolis, MN).
Solo exhibitions include NOME Gallery (Berlin), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), Second Street Gallery (SC), Turchin Center for the Visual Arts/Appalachian State University (NC), Dolby Chadwick Gallery (CA), Roy G Biv Gallery (OH) and Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (NYC). Group exhibition highlights include the San Jose Museum of Art (CA), Power Plant Gallery/Duke University (NC), William King Museum (VA), Monterey Museum of Art (CA), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Hunterdon Museum of Art (NJ), Tweed Museum of Art (MN), Riverside Art Museum (CA), Triton Museum of Art (CA), University of North Carolina Asheville (NC), Truman State University (MO), Torpedo Factory (VA), Roos Arts (NY), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Lesley Heller Workspace (NYC) and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (LA).
Her work has been published in Made In Mind Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Creators Project, Widewalls, Spolia Literary Magazine, Vhcle Magazine, DIALOGIST, Slice Magazine, New American Paintings, Ignatian Literary Magazine, ElevenEleven, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Manifest International Drawing Annual.
She is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Dave Bown Project Award, as well as grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Artists’ Fellowship Inc., Puffin Foundation, Change Inc., and the Creative Capacity Fund. She has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Willapa Bay AiR, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Spiro Arts Center, Anderson Center, and Ballinglen Arts Foundation.
Stolle received a BA in Visual Arts from Framingham State College, and completed studies at Richmond College (London, England) and Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA).
Kirsten Stolle will be an Artist in Residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts from April 29 - May 12, 2024
"In Feast or Famine"
January 20 - April 7, 2024
Bringing together the work of twenty-four artists, In Feast or Famine presents drawings, paintings, printmaking, photography, sculpture, collage, installation, and video. Artists consider our connections with food within the contexts of history and memory; identity and community; food equity, agriculture, and our environment.
Exhibition on view: September 2, 2023 - April 6, 2024
The Weatherspoon is pleased to announce the 47th presentation of Art on Paper. A time-honored museum tradition, the exhibition features the work of artists who demonstrate the breadth of ways in which one can deploy the humble medium of paper to extraordinary ends. From layering colorful strips as one might on a piñata, to precisely cutting through an elongated page until its image appears as if made by lace, to densely coating giant sheets with shellac and walnut ink until they appear as weighty as stone, these artists harness the seemingly infinite ability of paper to take on myriad forms. Simultaneously, they use those forms to explore a rich array of topics–from the links and tensions between humans and the natural environment, to the beauty found in the often overlooked materials of our daily lives, to the complexity of heritage tracked across centuries of global migrations.
April 14 – August 21, 2023
Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller’s Plans to Save the Planet brings the inventions and designs of R. Buckminster Fuller (Milton, MA 1895-1983, Los Angeles, CA) to Western North Carolina and introduces visitors to Fuller’s strategies for the sustainability of humans and the planet relating to housing, transportation, mathematics, and engineering.
In this episode, Stolle talks with Matt Peiken about the seeds of her artistic inquiry, the heavy research fuelling her work and the line she straddles between artistry and activism.
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh has acquired Kirsten Stolle's Chemical Bouquet II (2016)
Kirsten Stolle and Katie Hirsch discuss Stolle’s exhibition ‘Only You Can Prevent a Forest’ at an artist talk at the Hasley Institute of Contemporary Art, Aug. 27, 2022
Using appropriation, wordplay, and humor, Kirsten Stolle co-opts advertising strategies used by agrichemical corporations to resurface and critique company history. For her exhibition, Only You Can Prevent A Forest, Stolle will create photo-based collages, visual poetry interventions, text-based sound animation, a neon wall piece, and her first site-responsive sculptural installation.
Explore humanity’s relationship to the environment through an immersive, multimedia exhibition and outdoor sculpture installations in the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park. Through video, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media works, 14 contemporary artists focus on current concerns and offer new perspectives. They address urgent environmental issues, consequences of inaction, and opportunities for sustainable environmental stewardship and restoration. Also including work by: John Akomfrah, Olafur Eliasson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Allison Janae Hamilton, Richard Mosse, Jennifer Steinkamp, Christine Wertheim, and Margaret Wertheim, among others.
A series of pieces focused on the appropriation of selling chemicals products within advertising. A new take of toxic chemicals with a pop art view.
Selective Memory examines the influence of agribusiness and biotech companies on our food supply. Using appropriation, redaction and manipulation, Kirsten Stolle critiques the popular narrative and explores the complex relationship between economy and ecology. Mining source materials such as 20th century medical books, 19th century botanical lithographs, USDA promotional videos and archival photographs, Stolle’s work responds to corporate propaganda and challenges industry narratives.
Kirsten Stolle is a visual artist working in collage, drawing and mixed media. Her research-based practice is grounded in the investigation of corporate propaganda, food politics and biotechnology.
Drawing together nearly 100 works from the museum’s Modern & Contemporary Collection, Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum is the museum’s first exhibition to focus on this dynamic, engaging medium. This technique, in which materials from different sources are cut, torn, and layered to create new meanings and narratives, experienced a renaissance after World War II, due in large part to Charlotte native Romare Bearden, whose work plays a special role in this exhibition.
The Billboard Creative connects artists with mass audiences on the streets of LA, bringing art into the daily routines of hundreds of thousands of Angelenos
The exhibition The End is Where We Start From. On Tsunamis, Nuclear Explosions and other Fairy Tales brings together works of eight international visual artists whose work navigates on the intersection of art and long-term scientific research. While examining the relationship between nature, time and human intervention, and translating this in strong visual work, these artists generate new readings of our surroundings and possible perceived futures.
Collage is one of the most accessible artistic mediums. Requiring nothing more than paper and glue, it is easily achievable by people of all ages and skill levels. Often relying on found imagery, collage circumvents the need to generate new content and is a refreshingly non-intimidating form of self-expression. However, its seeming simplicity belies an influential, potent, and rebellious underbelly.
12 x 12 gives artists from across North Carolina a public platform for continued artistic development and recognition in the place where they live and work, and beyond. Through this exhibition, SECCA seeks to give national exposure and recognition to artists in the region, as SECCA has done historically with the annual awards for the selected Southeast Seven contemporary artists and the Awards in the Visual Arts, recognizing national and international artists.
Kirsten Stolle's "The Grass is Always Greener" was featured in Harper's Magazine Monday Gallery series.
Kirsten Stolle was commissioned to create work for the Atlantic article “America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming," by Sarah Laskow
'Work of Asheville artist to be featured in upcoming NC Museum of Art exhibit,' by Brittany Whitehead
Works by 12 artists who have had such solo outings are brought together in SECCA’s latest group exhibition, on view through April 22 in the Main Gallery. Playing on North Carolina’s status as the 12th state to have ratified the U.S. Constitution, it’s titled “12 x 12: 12 Artists from the 12th State.”
Interview with Kirsten Stolle about her work upcoming exhibition.
