Stephanie Chapman is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Charlotte, NC. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and pop-up events across the city of Charlotte – Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte Art League, Southend Arts, Charlotte Hornets – 704 Night, and Petra’s Art Lounge. An abstract realist at heart, Chapman chooses to communicate through her direct and interesting perspectives that are never fully whole. Her work focuses on confronting her own perfectionism and encouraging others to know that being a human is imperfect; her art can be too. Chapman won third place at the Charlotte Mural competition, Battle Walls in 2021. Her collection Clean Chaos has been in residency at Venture X – Toringdon in Ballantyne, NC and she has consistently created new work for it since 2021. Chapman curated and exhibited her first solo show, Pretty Girl Privilege at the Artisan’s Palate in March of 2023. She co-founded the Queen City Creative Court in 2024 to help connect Charlotte’s creative visionaries. Chapman has participated in several live painting events across the city of Charlotte with local community activists like NFT CLT for their Music Expo, the Wesley Height’s Art Crawl to bring art to others during the Pandemic, and most recently Chapman creating a collaborative piece with 12 other painters during CLT Boom in April 2024. Chapman brings her background as a historian and passion for conversation to create her own specialized style of artwork. She is drawn to many mediums but always conditions them to spawn emotion and invite others to further consider the subject at hand. To Chapman, being a self-taught artist means that she is not tied down by curriculum and trusts the natural talents given to her that she sharpens through trial, error, and exploration. She is ever expanding her definition of an abstract realist and what that means for her art.