01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sylvia Ji's Stella (Blue Stoya), with Footnotes #217

Sylvia Ji (b. 1982)

Detail; Stella (Blue Stoya), 2007

Acrylic on wood panel

20 x 18 inches (50.8 x 45.7 cm)

Private collection

Sylvia Ji (b. 1982)

Stella (Blue Stoya), 2007

Acrylic on wood panel

20 x 18 inches (50.8 x 45.7 cm)

Private collection

Stoya was born as Jessica Stoyadinovich. She was born on 15 June 1986. Stoya was born to a Scottish father and Serbian mother. Stoya was her nickname before becoming a pornstar. It was the shortened version of her Grandmother’s name. She is from Wilmington, North Carolina. She wanted to become a dancer. Stoya was homeschooled. She got her High School diploma before the age of 16. Her father worked in IT. From there she grew to love technology. She moved to Delaware getting her diploma. She enrolled in Delaware College of Art & Design. But she dropped out. Later she relocated to Philadelphia.

In 2007 Digital Playground contacted her. Stoya was offered a contract by digital playground. She accepted to become a pornographic actress. She has appeared in a lot of digital playground movies. She also appeared in a film by Evil Angel. In 2014 she left Digital Playground. More on Stoya

Born to a family of artists in 1982, Sylvia Ji was immersed into the world of art at a very young age. Next to her father's paintings and mother's sketchbooks, Ji has had a lifelong influence of art and culture, aided by her love for travel and exploration.

Receiving her BFA in illustration from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco in 2005, she demonstrated her talent by having a successful first solo show during her last year of study.

Ji creates charged paintings brimming with an uncanny beauty that are in constant demand. Possessing an artistic voice as unique as the times we live in, Sylvia Ji is at once contemplative, spiritual, enigmatic, and yet whimsically funny.

Inspired by the many relationships and people that surround her, Sylvia Ji portrays many of the familiar faces in her paintings, often reflecting upon her own image and feelings.

Using simple materials, she explores the female beauty, sexuality, and the tattooed subjects denote both a frightful look and certain fragility behind the mask, depicting a fearful beauty placed in an exotic, timeless reality. With each painting being spiritual and enigmatic, a nuance of the artist can be seen regardless of whom the piece actually depicts, as her desire to surprise is easily transferred to the canvas.

A self-professed lover of travel and life long student of international culture and art, Sylvia's experiences and relationships continue to shape her exploration of indefinable human emotion. Now, and in the years to come, her life's journey is more than the sum of its parts drawn from her past, built on the present and beyond fascinating expressions of love and lust, beauty and decay, delicacy and passion. More on Sylvia Ji

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