Stiler’s paintings draw from her background in printmaking. Playing with the tension between flatness and three-dimensionality, her experimental practice imbues the history of collage and cubism with disparate references, including Greco-Roman sculpture, Art Deco illustrations, and digital photography. The intricate woven paper works she first developed in 2010 exemplify this referential approach while alluding to the warp and weft of weavings. Building on these compositions, her recent relief paintings recall modernist block printed textiles. These paintings combine resin, acrylic paint, graphite, and heavy watercolor paper into layered tiles that rupture and playfully subvert the modernist grid—a gesture that pays tribute to feminist craft traditions while reexamining the legacy of modernism.
