Bio

Aly Stosz is a visual artist whose work plays with perspective. Materials include wax, charcoal, graphite, ballpoint pen, and acrylics on paper and wood. She sometimes builds or incorporates unique objects, surfaces, and frames.

Recently in early 2022, Aly moved into a serene private studio within a collective in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Prior she worked out of a 30 year old collective at White Street Studios in Tribeca, New York. Sadly, due to Covid she lost access in 2020.

Aly’s work has been shown at multiple Tribeca Arts & Culture nights - in the Makeable’s White Space gallery, and at open studios. She has also displayed in Telluride, Colorado galleries and made custom artwork for the Telluride Film Festival. A viral video about her story and her work ran by many news outlets in 2016 and in 2018.

In 2012 she worked at an antiques shop on 25th St. in Manhattan: buying, researching, merchandising. She continues dabbling in antiques and collectibles as a hobby. Blazing curiosity about collectors, their spaces, collections, and the concept of what makes something valuable informs her own works.

Aly is one of the tallest women in the world. Coming of age was intense in such a large body. Eventually, when she reached her full height at 6’9”, body diversity was becoming more popular which eased some of the difficulty. The experience put her through many trials of suffering, confusion, awareness, and healing. It has made her a sensitive but resilient person and she is enormously grateful to exist this way. Her stature influences her work in many ways.

From a very young age Aly’s creativity was nurtured by her matrilineal line. Her grandmother gifted her a spot in a small class with a studio artist after school from age 9 to 12, in addition to many other camps and courses afterward.

She earned a BA in 2014 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, within the distinctive SIM department. SIM (an acronym for Studio for Interrelated Media), is a unique learning space for experimental and interdisciplinary art. As a community we were expected to put on a cohesive group show each week for department review.

In SIM a great focus is put on presentation and production. Through her teacher Elaine Buckholtz, Aly applied for an exclusive internship producing the Telluride Film Festival, where Elaine had been Lighting Director for a decade. She returned for 7 more years, working in the Art Department designing and building sets and as Production Manager for the second largest theater of the festival.

Aly’s past work is medium to large scale and inspired by the intersection of nature, science, and spirituality. The visual language is populated by spheres, strong figures, alien planets and landscapes, stillness, volume, and geometry. Thematically it explores truth, perspective, conflict / harmony, and peace.

In 2021 and 2022 her creative work was mobile - poems and handheld drawings of portraits, dynamic scenes, and abtracted phantasmagorical landscapes.

Aly Stosz is a visual artist, performer, and producer.

ABOUT HER WORK

Her paintings and drawings span from tiny to huge and dip into science, nature, and spirituality. Alien landscapes barren or populated by strong figures, spheres, stillness, volume, vibrancy, and geometry.

Aly worked in a warehouse studio collective for several years in Gowanus. Before that she was in a long running collective at White Street Studios in Tribeca, New York.

She has shown at Tribeca galleries and at Tribeca Arts & Culture nights, Lower East Side galleries, in Telluride, Colorado at Aha gallery and school of art. Commissioned illustrations and graphic designs include for Telluride Film Festival, Joanna Vargas skincare, Meow3D printing, and more.

She has been a model, performer, and producer for the better part of the last 14 years.

Aly models, performs for, and works with fashion designers, fetish outlets, fitness coaches, production studios, and photojournalists.

Viral videos about Aly’s story and her work have run around the world in news outlets for many years. She performed in a British reality show called House of Extraordinary People.

ABOUT ALYSSA

Aly is among the 100 tallest and biggest women in the world. Coming of age was an acute experience. Being so substantial (as a girl) came with many trials of confusion and awareness, unique hardships and privileges, and has made her a sensitive but resilient person.

Her stature influences her work. She is never allowed to forget how she sticks out and how it makes other people feel.

Both her grandmother and mother nurtured Aly’s creativity from a very young age. Aly’s grandmother sent her to work with a studio artist starting in third grade, then fine art camps and courses later in her teens.

She earned a BA in 2014 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, within the SIM department. SIM (Studio for Interrelated Media), is a unique learning space for experimental and interdisciplinary art. It is a community where they put on a cohesive group show each week.

In SIM a great focus is put on presentation and production. Through her teacher Elaine Buckholtz, Aly applied for a highly selective internship at the Telluride Film Festival. She started as a PA and returned for 7 more years, as a Production Manager and also working in the Art Department designing and building sets.