My work concentrates on how moving between locations, especially the architecture of the urban landscape, can transform a relationship with the practice of everyday living. It is speaking to the duality of movement in that it is a process of gaining and losing place. As well as, how it grasps the three divisions of time through the phenomena of memory, place and imagination. The work implies that dwelling poetically and the act of creating move one towards the understanding of the personal and universal; causing an awareness of not only one's morality but of their mortality.

Stephanie Barenz is an artist currently living in Wisconsin. She received her Bachelors of Art from Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota, with a year spent in Florence, Italy. Stephanie spent one year as a resident artist at the Chicago Printmaker's Collaborative after graduating from college. She recently completed her MFA in Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited in Italy, Romania, Chicago, St. Louis, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington.