Stephanie Rado Taormina: Time & Transformation

This exhibition brings together nearly two decades of Stephanie Rado Taormina’s creative evolution — from her earliest abstract works of 2007 to the figurative abstractions of today. Each period reflects a distinct chapter in how she has lived, seen, and expressed the world around her.

In the beginning, Taormina’s paintings explored form and feeling — organic shapes that hinted at the body and spirit. Over time, her work became more gestural and expressive, rooted in energy, emotion, and movement. During the years she stepped away from painting, she built a design practice and founded Have Some Fun Today, a brand inspired by her father’s words — a philosophy that continues to guide both her life and her art.

Since returning fully to the studio in recent years, Taormina has found herself weaving all those experiences together. Her new works merge abstraction and figuration — inner landscapes and human form — reflecting the ongoing dialogue between who we are and how we become.

Across the span of these years, one thread remains constant in her work: a devotion to transformation, color, and truth — the belief that art, like life, is an act of becoming.

About the Artist

Stephanie Rado Taormina is an American painter whose work explores the intersection of abstraction, emotion, and form. A self-taught artist and former interior designer, her practice spans nearly two decades of creative evolution—from early organic abstractions to her current synthesis of gestural, figurative, and conceptual approaches. Influenced by her background in design and her lifelong fascination with color, movement, and composition, Taormina’s paintings reveal an ongoing conversation between intuition and structure. After years devoted to design and entrepreneurship, she returned to painting full-time, creating expansive bodies of work that trace both personal and artistic transformation. Based between New York City and Pennsylvania, she has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, including her 2025 debut at The Yocum Gallery and her upcoming 2026 exhibition at The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. Her art invites viewers into a world where feeling becomes form and the past continually reshapes the present.

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