Alice Stanne
MFA ’30 Architecture
Past Administrative Assistant-Architecture
Constructed from furniture and other objects of the home, my assemblage-based sculptures use the familiarity of the domestic to explore the uncertain relationship we have with control. With a do-it-yourself sensibility fueled by perpetually worried energy, I attempt to build solutions to problems that feel both minute and massive. Reorganizing the things within my grasp provides seemingly tangible solutions, however improvisational or impractical.
I am fascinated with the structures that form our world, both inside and outside of the home, particularly the ubiquity of modular organizational systems that impact our daily lives. In the middle of it all is the home, one of our most personal containers–a temporal site of past memory, current physicality, and future imaginings. By transforming familiar objects through tinkering, I explore how we can stretch our perceptions of our everyday surroundings. Constructed with care but precarity, my work questions our desire for control while acknowledging the likelihood that it may never be achieved.
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Alice Stanne is a Boston-based artist who uses the domestic to explore our relationship with control through assemblage-based sculptures and installations. Her work is informed by her upbringing in the suburban Hudson Valley region of New York, and the transition to urban living in the city of Boston, MA.
Alice studied Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art & Design (BFA, 2011), where she became enamored of artist’s books as three dimensional forms. Her MFA in Studio Art at Maine College of Art & Design (2025), grew her work to include sculpture and installation art. Alice currently teaches classes at all levels, working regularly with students at MassArt.
