My artwork serves as a visual document of the surrounding urban environment.  I create multi-media compositions based on photographs (mine or historic) that are transformed by use of skilled printmaking techniques combined with loose expressionistic hand painting. Layered and compositionally rich, the work is a study of how experiences define one's environment; an acknowledgement of what has passed and its importance to the present. Photographic images transformed by my working process tend to "freeze time," making a platform for individual histories to be recalled and shared once more.

Stacey Carter is a San Francisco professional artist who has worked from her studio at Hunters Point Shipyard since 1998. Her work is inspired by urban architecture and the surrounding environment based on photographic images – often historic - that are transformed by her creative process to become unique impressions of places familiar, yet entirely contemporary portrayals.  Her pieces are documentary visual artworks that combine past and present that inform, challenge and reinvent the surrounding urban environments as we think we know it.

Stacey Carter’s first San Francisco exhibition was “Introductions 2002” sponsored by   the San Francisco Art Dealer’s Association at the George Krevsky Gallery. Career highlights include exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California, the New Museum of Los Gatos (NUMU) and the Berkeley Art Center. A major purchase of her of her work was made by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for their permanent collection at the Bay Area Metro Center in San Francisco. She has been invited to speak about her work at the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco and at San Francisco History Days at the Old Mint. Stacey has been recognized by the art community by receiving nominations for the Eureka Fellowship award and was a nominee / finalist for the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2016. Major Commissions include an ongoing series of star player portraits for the NFL Team Baltimore Ravens, and in 2021 she completed a 5ft x 40ft public art commission in collaboration with Derek Lynch for the San Francisco Arts Commission on permanent display at the San Francisco International Airport.