Allie Stabile explores how a sense of self is reshaped by place. Drawing on her experience of rural Pennsylvania and New York City, she constructs fragmented landscapes from painted canvas, mesh, and fabric. Fields, fences, windows, and architectural grids overlap, reflecting the ways different environments remain present within a person. Her paintings approach this experience as an ongoing negotiation between what we carry, what we reveal, and what we allow to change.

Stabile works through an intuitive process of cutting, layering, covering, and rearranging. Materials retain their own edges and histories while responding to the forms around them. Mesh conceals without fully obscuring; fabric crosses divisions while introducing new ones. These interactions create a dance of accommodation and resistance, where one element’s movement changes the space available to another. The resulting works hold a self in transition—shaped through contact, yet capable of pushing back.

Stabile received her MFA in Painting and Drawing with distinction from Pratt Institute in 2020 and her BA in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from Salve Regina University in 2014. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Culture Lab LIC, Super Dutchess Gallery, and Treat Gallery New York, as well as The SHIM/Masters Show on Artsy. She participated in the COPE NYC residency in 2019 and received the Pratt Circle Award in 2020. Stabile was featured in Saatchi Art’s Rising Stars 35 Under 35 in 2020 and nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant in 2026.