Cody Castle-Stack

Originally from Old Orchard Beach, Cody Castle-Stack (born 1994) is an artist and a local arts organizer based in Portland. His artistic practice is an endless painterly exercise, a sandbox to form, and challenge his notions of creation. Together, his paintings aim to elevate immediacy and difference, and prioritizes aesthetic and conceptual variance over expressions of skill. In 2018, Castle-Stack co-founded New System Exhibitions, a not-for-profit art exhibition space in the beloved New System Laundry building in West Bayside neighborhood of Portland. The six co-directors, young artists themselves, operate a scaled-back exhibition environment where local emerging artists are given ample space to execute their creative vision and share it with their community. He has exhibited throughout Maine and has received a Mellon Humanities Fellowship and Nellie C. Watterson Fellowship.