visual artist / translator

 

Stacy Elaine Dacheux is a writer who sometimes uses a visual format (paintings, drawings, photographs) to explore art in relation to sociology or anthropology. Born in Boston in 1979, she is, for the most part, a self-taught painter whose own visual work has developed from writing in relation to, and studying the critical texts of Eileen Myles, Mary Ann Caws, Calvin Tomkins, Susan Sontag, Clement Greenberg, Marshall McLuhan, and Frank O'Hara.

Creatively, she has collaborated with artists such as Mary Rachel Fanning and Christopher Lavery, and with writers such as Richard Froude and Brian Evenson. Her visual work has been shown in Los Angeles and Mexico. In 2009, Harmony Gallery hosted flora & fauna, an experiment in serendipity and first chances, matching her abstract drawings with original poems by Matthew Langley. Other paintings grace the covers of poetry books from Rebecca Loudon, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Sara M. Larsen, and Melissa R. Benham.

Dacheux is a Pushcart Prize nominee (2010) and was a finalist in the Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction (2009). With Paris Lia, she writes articles for Flavorpill and edits Slack Lust. Certain other publications include Versal: An International Literary Journal from Amsterdam, Bust Magazine, Venus Zine, and Artillery: Killer Text on Art. Her critical essay, "The Artist and Her Muse" has been translated into Thai and appears in Wanrudee Buranakorn’s exhibition catalogue, Language In-Form, released with the premiere of Buranakorn's retrospective at Seven Art Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand (2010).