Stephanie Sherwood
Stephanie Sherwood is an established artist from the Los Angeles area, whose work has been shown all over, both in the United States and internationally. Her resume is impressive, as it includes curatorial work done for Finishing Concepts, the Little Tokyo Arts Complex, the Torrance Art Museum, and Durden and Ray at the Bendix Building in DTLA. Her work has also been shown in the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA Artcore, The Brand Library and Art Center, and DAC Gallery. You can find her on Instagram at @stephanie_sherwood_art.
We wanted to get in touch with Stephanie because she has developed a very meaningful and unique approach to street art. I had the chance to meet her in person, one early morning in LA. She spotted a couch on the side of the road and invited me to come and watch her paint it right there on the sidewalk. It was an incredible experience getting to see her create her art in person, and in such a unique setting. I was also able to use Trnio to help her document not only the final product, but the process as well:
Starting in September of 2019, Stephanie has been working on a series of over 40 pieces where she uses different pieces of furniture or other alternative objects on the street as a canvas for her artwork. She fittingly calls this series “Confine In Situ”. While using these objects as a canvas is both creative and somewhat convenient for her, there is a more significant reason as to why she chose this specific type of street art. She explained that the meaning behind using this type of alternative canvas for her art is that she never knows where it is going to end up. She said that this is sort of a cathartic practice of letting go, as she usually can’t bring these pieces home with her or to her studio. This means that she must let go of them as soon as she has completed them. I found this idea to be inspirational, relatable and a good practice of something that is difficult for most people in life.
Throughout this project, Trnio has been a very useful tool for her in terms of documenting each of the pieces that she spends hours painting and then subsequently leaves behind. Trnio is invaluable for her because it means that by scanning her artwork, she doesn’t actually have to leave it behind. Because Trnio can be used to create a detailed 3D model of her painted objects, she uses it as an alternative method of documentation to record the artwork she has done. Through Trnio, she is able to take a unique piece of her artwork home with her to look back on and share with others. Check out this piece she did and the scan of the work done with Trnio:
When I met with Stephanie, I brought along my DSLR camera to take photos to import into Trnio Plus, and I was also able to test an early version of the Trnio Plus LiDAR scanning to capture the entirety of the couch. You can see the difference between the two scans below.
Stephanie’s work is a great example of how Trnio can be used as a resource for documentation of physical creativity. Thanks so much to Stephanie for not only letting us test out Trnio Plus on her artwork, but also having Trnio play a small role in the “Confine In Situ” series!