Stephanie Lane: Meta Physika

Deeply committed to material experimentation in painting and photography, MoCA Arlington Resident Artist Stephanie Lane’s solo exhibition Meta Physika showcases new installations and video alongside images from the artist’s photo archive, most of which have never been printed or displayed. Spanning more than eighteen years, from 2007 to the present, the artworks in Meta Physika explore the artist’s ongoing fascination with mysticism and the passage of time.

Meaning “beyond physics” in Greek, Meta Physika displays Lane’s highly experimental approach to art-making across artistic disciplines. Ranging in genre from still life to portraiture, Lane’s images hover between recognizable form and abstraction, undergoing a metamorphosis before the eyes. Lane’s images of birds in flight, moons, bird cages, eggs, cats, flowers and mirrors become potent symbols through repeated use: mysterious riddles without answers. Heavily influenced by Theosophic philosophy, which posits that everything in the physical world is a manifestation of its metaphysical essence, Lane’s artworks in Meta Physika attempt to pierce the veil between this world and invisible realms, inviting the viewer to see beyond the image to its spiritual source.

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Stephanie Lane
Born Glendale, California
Lives and works in the Washington, DC Metro area

Working across media, Stephanie Lane explores ideas about opposites, merging, emergence, and boundaries, focusing on that place where the non-physical transforms into the physical. Recent exhibitions include a site-specific public artwork at the Crystal City Metro in partnership with The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and National Landing BID (2025), Wish You Were Here at The Wyatt Resident Gallery at MoCA Arlington, (Arlington, VA, 2024), and Suspended Animation at Fred Schnider Gallery (Arlington, VA, 2023). Lane’s work as a trompe l’oeil muralist can be found in both corporate and residential venues including the National Italian American Foundation in Washington, DC. Lane’s photography was represented by the National Geographic Image Collection 2011- 2018 (disbanded). Lane attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design and holds a BGS from Maryland University. In addition to working as a fine art photographer and painter, Lane is currently an instructor at MoCA Arlington where she has taught adult classes in Figure Drawing and Painting, and Experimental Painting and the Creative Process since 2011.

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Art After Hours
Saturday / February 21 / 5pm-8pm