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. Her artwork is disparate in scale with curiosities in science, nature, and spirituality. She taps alien planets and landscapes barren or populated by strong figures, spheres, stillness, volume, vibrancy, and geometry.

In smelly Gowanus, Brooklyn, Aly spent a few years in a warehouse studio collective, 2021 - 2023. Prior to that she membered in a long running collective at White Street Studios in Tribeca, New York.

These days she is often preoccupied running a business as a fetish model and producer. This odd-ball avant garde occupation she began over a decade ago. She makes things on-the-go or in her apartment in downtown NY.

Aly models and performs for fashion designers, journalists, fetishists, coaches. She loves to do so. Her artwork has been 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.

Viral videos about Aly’s story and her work ran around the world in news outlets from 2016 - 2018, and she did a British “docuseries” (reality tv) called House of Extraordinary People featuring a human parrot, a man who cut off his own leg, and Aly’s roommate - a 3’6” wholesome midwestern woman with primordial dwarfism.

In her 20s she worked at an antique shop in Flatiron, NYC: buying, researching, merchandising. She continues dabbling in antiques and collectibles as a hobby. Blazing fascination in collectors, their spaces, collections, and what makes something valuable.

Aly is one of the tallest and biggest women in the world. Coming of age was intense in the top 0.000001% for size. By young adulthood, wokeness became popular and started destroying everyone’s minds. People were kinder and diversity more acceptable, which made things a lot easier for Aly. For a little while.

Being such a physically substantial woman put her through many trials of suffering, confusion, awareness, and healing. It comes with many privileges as well and has made her a sensitive but resilient person. 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 starting in third grade, in addition to many camps and courses afterward.

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 and exquisite learning space for experimental and interdisciplinary art. As a community they put on a cohesive group show each week for department review.