Screenprint, mixed media, 24 in x 18 in,
Price is for a framed piece.
This print was made with Wassaic Project and is based on Santana's edition with the Robert Blackburn Printshop, As Above/So Below. The edition refers to situating oneself within systems of knowledge across both material and spiritual worlds. Using textures from cheesecloth, a print studio material, along with photo collage and a hand-drawn cosmogram, the composition draws on Santana's textile-based printmaking practice and developing body of work, the Wayfinding series (2022-Present).
As Above/So Below represents self-determination, the nonlinear nature of time and our consciousness as a conduit between physical and spiritual worlds. Santana sees much of her work as a form of ancestor veneration; a link between past, present and future. Each point in the cosmogram represents the four stages in the repeating cycle of life: conception, birth, maturity and death.
Stephanie M. Santana (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) is a textile artist and printmaker whose work explores wayfinding technologies and resistance strategies of Afrodiasporic origins. Recent solo exhibitions include Call & Response at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2025), Ways of Knowing at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2024), and The Armory Show, New York, NY (2024). Her work is held in permanent collections that include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute. Santana is a 2025 Dieu Donné Workspace Residency recipient, 2024–25 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow: Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, and 2023 Kahn/Mason SIP Fellow with EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The American Scholar, and Hyperallergic. Santana is a founding member of printmaking collective Black Women of Print, and a member of family artist collective The Santana Project. She lives and works in New York.
