Artist Statement: Each piece begins as an invitation. Summons, from another place, another space. Stepping through the gate, I wander in-betweens of endless, ethereal skies and moody, abyssal hallways, then bind the magic of these sacred spaces to their paintings through the play of light and the glint of gold.

Artist Bio: Jay Stoneking is a queer, mixed Vietnamese-American artist and graphic novelist based in Seattle, Washington. His work is both art and occult, creation an act of physical, ritual magic weaving fantasy into the world. Within Stoneking’s delicate portals, gates, and arcane scrolls, he explores his intersectional identity, trauma, and personal divinity on his pilgrimage of becoming.