Stacey Smigrod is an impressionist artist and portrait painter based in Northern California. 

Stacey’s depiction of light and shadow is a consistent theme across her portraits, still lifes, landscapes and drawings. Her primary mediums include oil painting and charcoal. Across both mediums, her artworks express how conditions of light form warm and cool values. Each piece depicts the subject matter with just enough detail to draw the viewer into the image, without including every detail, thus allowing the viewer’s eye to finish the artwork. 

Born and raised in Great Neck, New York and daughter of an antique jeweler, Stacey spent  her childhood admiring the beautiful jewelry her father sold on 47th Street in Manhattan. Her artistic eye and appreciation for good design began to develop at a young age while studying every detail of these small works of art.

As a Landscape Designer for many years, creating large scale gardens in Sonoma County, California, Stacey has built a career bringing her designs to fruition. However, when your materials are from the natural world, sometimes the color palette is limiting. Learning to paint was Stacey’s opportunity to finally create her own universe through the use of color.  Her greatest enjoyment and also largest challenge continues to be portraying the world through direct observation. However, the intrinsic joy in capturing a landscape, model or still life in plein air using the colorist and impressionist techniques is the magic that inspires her to continue creating.

Exhibitions

  • 2021 Marin Open Studios

  • 2019 Marin Open Studios

  • 2018  Marin Open Studios - Juried Show

  • 2018  Sonoma Holistic Center - Solo Show

  • 2017  Graton Gallery, "Small Works Show"

  • 2017  Sonoma Arts Guild, Invitational Show

  • 2016  Sonoma Wine Annex, "Women Artists of Sonoma"

  • 2015  Bolinas Gallery - Juried Show

  • 2014  Oak Hill Farms - Solo Show

  • 2013  Barking Dog - Solo Show

  • 2012  Valley of the Moon Art Association Show, Sonoma Plaza

  • 2011  Valley of the Moon Art Association Show, Sonoma Plaza

Education

  • 2014-Present Marin Art School, Dorallen Davis Teacher / Mentor

  • 2018 Lithography Workshop, Penland School of Craft Deb Chaney

  • 2017 Figurative Workshop with Dorallen Davis and Camille Przewodek

  • 2017  Limited Palette Portrait Workshop, The Art Students League of New York with Elizabeth Adams-Jones

  • 2016  Portrait Workshop with Cedric and Joanette Egeli

  • 2016 Large Scale Portrait Workshop, The Art Students League of New York with Elizabeth Adams-Jones

  • 2012  Color Boot Camp Workshop with Camille Przewodek, Colorist Painter

  • 2009-2012 Studied with Zoe Orth, Impressionist Painter

  • 1989  Certificate in Landscape Architecture University of California, Berkeley

  • 1979 BA in Studio Art Sonoma State University

  • 1972-1976 Studied Printmaking Alfred University, New York,