Brenda Stumpf works with photography, image transfer, found materials, painting, and sculpture to explore memory, loss, transformation, and the passage of time. Ruins, ancient sites, fragments, and worn surfaces recur throughout her work. Photographs are transferred, layered, obscured, and altered with pigment, rust, graphite, wax, and other materials. Found objects are similarly transformed—covered, broken down, reassembled, and given new life.

The resulting works exist between image and object, presence and absence, what is remembered and what is lost. Stumpf is interested in what remains after time has passed: the fragment, the trace, the residue. Her work is a meditation on memory and the quiet persistence of things that might otherwise be forgotten.