Stefana McClure
Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, 1959
Lives and works in New York, USA
McClure is probably best known for her Films on Paper, an ongoing series of monochromatic works composed of a succession of superimposed subtitles, intertitles, or closed captions depicting entire movies, often foreign-language films. In a recent article by Robert Davis, published in Paste Magazine, the critic noted that this "seemingly obsessive art project in which she laboriously traces all of the subtitles that appear in a film, on top of each other in layers...results in an abstract work, roughly the size of a computer monitor, that captures not the story or cinematography of a film but the shape and placement of its text, the part of the picture you're normally supposed to see right through... Her meticulous process of translation not only reveals patterns that we normally ignore but also seems to capture something essential about the language beneath—the language within—every film."
Biography
Stefana McClure was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1959 and lives and works in New York. She holds a BA in Sculpture from Hornsey College of Art, London (1980–1984), and undertook post-graduate studies in papermaking at Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto (1993–1995), supported by a Monbusho Scholarship. She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2001–2002.
Her work is held in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and the Museum Folkwang, Essen, among others. She has exhibited extensively with Bartha Contemporary, London, since 2009.
Related Journal
Selected press and literature
- Revelation and the SilencedInterfaces (OpenEdition Journals), 2026
- Drawing RoomDrawing Room, Hamburg, 2026
- Drawing RoomDrawing Room Hamburg, 2026
- 2019-2020 - Misericordia UniversityMisericordia University, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, 2026
- Infinite Possibilities Serial Imagery in 20th-Century…Davis Museum, 2026
- Between the Lines - Exhibitions - Bienvenu Steinberg & CBienvenu Steinberg & C, 2026
- Stefana McClureMeg Hitchcock, 2025
- On Time - Exhibitions - Bienvenu Steinberg & CBienvenu Steinberg & C, 2025
- 17. Gerardo Mosquera Fernández¬ACCESOS, 2024
- Studio Visit & Gallery Viewing with Stefana McClureArt & Object, 2022
- Stefana McClureSculpture, 2022
- Useless: Machines for DreamingThe Bronx Museum, 2022
Available Works
Stefana McClure
Sleeper, 2016
Transfer paper mounted on rag
Price on request
Stefana McClure
Fear and Trembling: English subtitles to a film by Alain Corneau, 2008
Wax transfer paper mounted on rag
41.6 × 58 cm
16 ⅜ × 22 ⅞ in
Price on request
Stefana McClure
Pulp Fiction: closed captions to a film by Quentin Tarantino, 2017
Transfer paper mounted on rag
7 × 12.7 cm
2 ¾ × 5 in
Price on request
Stefana McClure
Bergman’s Religious Trilogy, 2017
Graphite transfer paper mounted on rag
18 × 23 cm
7 ⅛ × 9 in
Price on request
Stefana McClure
Set of Five Drawings: Dragon Ball, dialogue to a manga by Akira Toriyama, 2005
Blue Transfer Paper Mounted on Rag
Price on request
Stefana McClure
Colourblind Drawing, 2012
4 layers of archival inkjet on paper with Japanese holepunch holes and black paper backing
60 × 60 × 0.5 cm
23 ⅝ × 23 ⅝ × ¼ in
Price on request
Stefana McClure
Colourblind Drawing C.L., 2012
4 layers of archival inkjet on paper with Japanese holepunch holes and black paper backing
60 × 60 × 0.5 cm
23 ⅝ × 23 ⅝ × ¼ in
Price on request
