Instagram story viewer> @jstapfart> Posts

Jess Stapf

@jstapfart

1K

followers

3646

following

Albany, NY
Artist
Fiber and Mixed Media Sculpture
UAlbany MFA 2023, Alfred University BFA 2018

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

Two new pieces I completed this week, the first is a 12 x 12 in felted piece with cherry frame and the second is a 8 x 8 in felted piece with oak frame. Frames by the incredible @a_days_delightful_carvings taken in Collar Works by @jstapfart

14

1

2 days ago

Have you ever wanted to touch a cloud? Join me for a beginner level needle felting workshop at Context Collective in Troy on Thursday November 5th from 6-8pm. In this introduction to needle felting you’ll learn how to needle felt and create your own handheld soft cloud in your choice of wool colors.
Link in bio to sign up! taken in Context Collective Troy by @jstapfart

42

1

4 days ago

Please join me on Friday October 16 from 5-7pm @cafeeuphoria518 for the closing reception of my exhibition Threadbare.

I hope you enjoyed the exhibition, it was amazing to work with Cafe Euphoria, a space in Troy that I am endlessly grateful for. It was so joyful to finally exhibit these prints that I made in 2017 @fineartsworkcenter in Provincetown, MA.

These works are all still for sale and are self portraits (mono and relief prints) that are about my relationship with clothing and finding safety and identity in clothing. Also included are some more recent tufted works! taken in Cafe Euphoria by @jstapfart

23

1

8 days ago

Great vibes at the gallery today! Such a fun afternoon at One Mile with Jess Stapf’s FONTANELLE 💚 — lots of visitors, conversation, and time spent hanging out inside Jess’s wonderfully strange and immersive world.

And a special bonus: Mark Hogancamp holding court in our “Mini Marwencol,” sharing stories and bringing a little Marwencol magic to the day.

We’re back tomorrow, Sunday, 12–5 PM. Come hang with us and step inside Fontanelle!

#JessStapf #Fontanelle #MarkHogancamp taken in One Mile Gallery by @jstapfart

155

2

2 months ago

Opening today at noon. 💚

A glimpse inside FONTANELLE, Jess Stapf’s wonderfully immersive installation at One Mile.

The gallery has been completely transformed—sculpture, furniture, painting, color and texture coming together to create an environment that feels part interior, part landscape, part imagined world. There’s something wonderfully uncanny about it: familiar forms become strange, playful and almost bodily, and the boundaries between artwork and the space around it begin to disappear.

JESS STAPF: FONTANELLE
OPENING TODAY, AUGUST 15
12–5 PM
Also open Sunday, August 16, 12–5 PM

One Mile Gallery
475 Abeel Street, Kingston

💚☁️☁️💙

#JessStapf #Fontanelle #OneMileGallery #KingstonNY #HudsonValleyArt taken in One Mile Gallery by @jstapfart

66

1

2 months ago

Installation is nearly complete for FONTANELLE, Jess Stapf’s exhibition at One Mile, and the gallery has become an entirely different place.

After the urgency and political charge of A Complicated Union, we’ve loved watching the space shift so completely. Fontanelle creates its own immersive world that is part domestic interior, part landscape, part dream.

Stapf’s sculptural furniture seems at once familiar and wonderfully strange: lush greens, flowers, painted surfaces and unexpected textures transform everyday forms into something almost bodily.

This is one of the things we love most about installation: when an artist doesn’t simply put work in a gallery, but changes our experience of the gallery itself. With Fontanelle, you don’t quite feel like you’re looking at an exhibition. More like a different world.

And we’re very happy to be living in it for the weekend. 💚

JESS STAPF: FONTANELLE
Saturday & Sunday, August 15–16
12–5 PM
One Mile Gallery
475 Abeel Street, Kingston

#JessStapf #Fontanelle #OneMileGallery #KingstonNY #HudsonValleyArt InstallationArt ContemporaryArt Sculpture UpstateArt taken in One Mile Gallery by @jstapfart

67

1

2 months ago

My solo show Fontanelle opens 2/6 6pm - 8pm at Saratoga Arts, I hope you can join!

Fontanelle takes its title from the delicate gaps in an infant’s skull—a vulnerability that is essential for growth. The wall hangings and sculptural forms in this body of work draw inspiration from both landscapes and interior architecture, crafted from wool, paper pulp, yarn, wood, and silk. Motifs of fences, hedges, and clouds take shape as functional furnishings, blurring the line between ornament and practicality. These works explore the tension between interior and exterior, and the human impulse to seek safety within boundaries and divisions. Through craft-based processes and a palette evoking gardens and lush expanses, this exhibition reflects upon, and uplifts, the strength inherent in vulnerability.

Photographs by John DeSousa @iohn.usa by @jstapfart

149

17

9 months ago

My solo show Fontanelle opens in one week! Friday 2/6 from 6pm - 8pm @saratogaarts hope to see you there!
Dream Logic, featuring @weirdfishez_art @anna.pellicone and @sethdbutler will be opening in the main gallery as well!

This body of work feels like a huge accomplishment for me, and is my first solo show outside of student galleries. I struggled a lot through the process of making this work and honestly that has made it all the more rewarding to see it come together.

Photography by John DeSousa @iohn.usa by @jstapfart

83

7

9 months ago

Join us at One Mile Gallery for a special two-day pop-up featuring Jess Stapf’s Fontanelle, on view August 15–16, 12–5 PM.

Fresh from its presentation at Saratoga Arts, Fontanelle is an immersive installation by Hudson Valley artist Jess Stapf. Working across sculpture, installation, and drawing, Stapf creates environments that examine the body as a site of memory, transformation, and connection. Her work draws from organic forms, architecture, and lived experience, inviting viewers into spaces that are both intimate and expansive.

Fontanelle continues this investigation through a contemplative installation that explores vulnerability and the porous boundaries between self and environment.

Jess Stapf: Fontanelle
📍 One Mile Gallery
🗓 August 15–16
🕛 12–5 PM

We hope you’ll join us.

#OneMileGallery #JessStapf #Fontanelle #KingstonNY #HudsonValleyArts taken in One Mile Gallery by @jstapfart

62

2

3 months ago

Thank you @jstapfart for commissioning frames from me!! Your felt art piece looks amazing in this frame, and I can't wait to make more!!

8inch x 8inch hard maple float frame featuring felt work by Jess Stapf.

#commissions #framemaking #smallbusiness
#supportyourlocalartistandmakers by @jstapfart

37

0

4 months ago

This Saturday 12-4pm! I’ll be at the @saratogaarts holiday market, located at 320 Broadway in Saratoga. I’ll be selling holiday ornaments (/mini art), rug wall hangings, and knit necklaces and earrings. I hope you can stop by for my first ever craft market.
.
.
#holidaymarket #saratogany #albany #craftfair #artistsoninstagram #rugtufting taken in Saratoga Arts by @jstapfart

48

0

4 years ago

Thank you so much @seancorcoranphoto for these excellent shots of my work!
.
This is a detail shot of the installation I created for my MFA show which has an opening reception tomorrow night 5/5 from 5-7pm @ualbanyartmuseum !
.
.

#ualbanymfa #process #ualbany #wallart #studio #artprocess #artstudio #fiberartist #tufting #textileart #fiberart #ualbanyartmuseum #rug #maker #art #contemporaryart #design #mfa #tufted #behindthescenes #rugtufting #artistsofinstagram #handmade #artistsoninstagram #sculpture #mfaexhibition #artoftheday #artwork #tufttheworld @tuft_the_world taken in Albany, New York by @jstapfart

94

7

3 years ago