Stasia Burrington (born Stasia Kato) makes her home in Bellevue, WA and is an internationally recognized freelance illustrator, sequential and fine artist. She attended Cornish College of the Arts and graduated from the University of Idaho with her BFA in 2010. She is the co author-illustrator of the Virgin Project graphic novel series. Her passions lie in the visual arts –in all forms, experimental cooking, camping, theology and science fiction, among others. If you have an exciting project, or something you’'d like to collaborate on, please let (me) know!
Inspiration
I believe in visual art’'s power to communicate the nuances that we haven’'t yet learned in words. I believe in the imperfect, the cracked, the broken, the aging, quiet, beautiful ugly. I know we all crave a simpler, quieter way of life, a more accepting attitude towards existence, and I know we all crave beauty; our definition of beauty needs only to be pried a little wider. The stains in our favorite teacups -– the wrinkles around our eyes –- the uneven stitches in a hand-knit quilt, these are full of the energy of age, the power of being loved over and over again. A reclaiming of heritage is in order in this world where it’'s easier to throw away than to mend. An embracing of our “flaws” is in order, to be kinder to ourselves - and to be kinder to the world.
SHOWS
2012
Dirty Show 13 - International Juried Show, Detroit, MI February
Solo Show - Shunga Series - Gallery Sesso, Portland, OR February
GR2 Lunar New Year Show - juried group show, Los Angeles, CA January
2011
Quiet Speaks - juried group show - Seattle, WA September
Queen of Arts all girl art show - group show - Denver, CO July
Solo Exhibition, the Night Kitchen, Seattle, WA June
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, international juried group exhibition, Seattle, WA, May
Solo Exhibition, Il Corvo, Seattle, WA, May
Solo Exhibition, Babeland, Seattle, WA, May-July
Barnstorm: the Cabaret Re-Imagined, juried group happening, Seattle, May
Solo show, The Other Coast Cafe, Seattle, WA, May
[upcoming] Group Exhibition, Black Toad, Moscow, Russia
2010
Solo Exhibition, Botanico, Denver, CO, August
Group Exhibition, Opal Sushi Den, Denver, CO, August
VIZ ORG First Friday Art Walk, Denver, CO, August
Group Exhibition, Drawgasmic, St. Louis, MO, July
VIZ ORG First Friday Art Walk, Denver, CO, July
Cute Girl World Domination, Solo Exhibition, Reflections Gallery, Moscow, ID, April-May
Depthcore XXXIX. Eve Exhibition, February
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, University of Idaho, January -
2009
BFA Solo Exhibition, Ridenbaugh Gallery, Moscow, ID, December
Undergraduate Juried Show, University of Idaho, January
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
Quiet Shorts - quarterly arts journal, December 2011
The Boulder Examiner, August 2010
Party Crasher, the Seattle Stranger, May 2010
Co-Author/Illustrator The Virgin Project 2 , April 2010
Guest Lecturer, Bellevue College, WA, 2009
Radio Interview on Sin City Blog Talk Radio 2009
Dan Savage, of Savage Love, 2009
They Do! E-magazine of upcoming artists, 2009
Co-author/Illustrator The Virgin Project , March 2008
MSNBC.com feature
AWARDS
Cartoonists Northwest Golden Toonie recipient, May 2010
Udergraduate Juried Exhibition, University of Idaho - Best in Show - 2010
Seth Dotson Memorial Award, University of Idaho, 2009
Open Figure Drawing poster competition Best Overall and 2 First Place, 2009
2 Daily Deviations on Deviantart.com
Spawns of Insomnia, Seattle, WA - runner up, Most Original, 2006
Great Falls Advertising Award, Great Falls, MT, 2004
Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT Best in Show, 2003
Marie Walsh Sharpe Scholar, Colorado Springs, CO, 2003
