Stephanie Binning Huye lives and paints in the South, where she grew up. She graduated from Louisiana State University School of Fine Arts. Presently, she resides in NOLA. She receives great pleasure from stretching and building her own canvases. She is a contemporary, narrative artist who works mostly in oil.

Huye’s portraits explore racial and cultural differences, traditional male/female roles, preconceptions, prejudices, different socio-economic backgrounds, the LGBTQ community, perceptions, and body image—anything involved with the human outer shell, which we have little or no control over. Whether she is painting traditional portraits (‘human shells’), or doing representational portraits, using flowers, animals, apparel or shoes as the vehicle, the narrative always asks the same two questions: “Who are we?” and “Who do others think we are?” “How do we connect with one another?”

Huye draws artistic inspiration from Max Beckmann, Philip Guston, George Grosz, Van Gogh, Jenny Saville, and Lucien Freud. She uses photography and mirror work for her portraits. When working from her own photos, she sets up and shoots the subject herself, according to the desired narrative. Her voice is full of irony, sarcasm, and a symbolic language demanding, “Justice for all!”