Elena Stonaker is a Los Angeles based multi-media artist working in interactive textile installation, painting, sculpture, design, video, and participatory audience experiences. With a deep interest in exploring a crossover between art and a wide spectrum of healing modalities and creation mythology from around the globe, Stonaker creates hyper-feminine surreal worlds based on archetypal visual language, using softness, beauty and comfort to create a safe space to explore shadow and discomfort. A major part of her practice is creating works that evolve over time… evocative of the process of spiritual growth. Pieces are cut apart, reworked, sewn back together in different configurations, with different uses… sculptures transform to wearable garments and then back again. Her work aims at subtly molding balance while acknowledging that imbalance opens the doorway to growth. Stonaker has exhibited and had work published worldwide. Most notably was her large scale installation in 2019 at Tasmania’s renowned Museum of Old and New Art as the featured artist in Kirsha Kaechele’s exhibition, Eat the Problem. This was followed by a solo show “Things that Bloom in the Dark” in Mexico City of new paintings and collaborative works in traditional Oaxacan ceramics made with Mexican artists Adrian Martinez Alarzon and Rodrigo Trevi. Currently her work is on view at Love Adorned in Downtown LA through mid April 2020 as well as with Chandran Gallery at Spring Break Fair.