Spreading across the wall, spilling onto the floor, or cascading from architectural supports, Katy Stone's artworks are both Rorschach tests of natural phenomena and rich harvests of line, shape, color, and motion.

Using the systematic repetition of simple gestures, she paints on a variety of materials, including archival plastic film and laser-cut metal, accumulating a bounty of elements that are layered into sculptural assemblages. The layers are separated in space so that a shallow relief builds up between flat planes, causing the work to hover between 2D and 3D. Shadows from directional lighting add another dimension of contrast with their substantial yet immaterial presence.

Attracting attention for her innovative approach to painting and for her immersive monumental constructions, she has exhibited at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Villach, Austria, and at museums and alternative spaces including the Boise Art Museum and Suyama Space in Seattle. Her work has been featured nationally and internationally in group exhibitions including 'Other Worlds,' at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida; 'Earthly Delights,' at Mass Art in Boston; and The Chengdou International Biennale in Chengdou, South Korea. She has also been reviewed in many publications including Artweek, New Art Examiner, Sculpture Magazine and Art in America.

Awarded a number of commissions for private and corporate clients, she has created major works in Houston, Seattle and in Cincinnati at The Ascent, a building designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. In 2008 she installed her first international commission in Taichung, Taiwan, and in 2009 she will complete public works for the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle, and for the University of Michigan's School of Business in Ann Arbor.

She received her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington in 1994 and is based in Seattle.