Sophie Grant
Region: Northeast
My paintings show organic rhythms, precision, and play. My
work manifests an intuitive and contingent moving and culling
of images through a physical process of searching. Within
this intimate space, I am interested in movement that permits,
creates, and liberates exploration and sensation. As I investigate
ways in which images invoke tactility, liquidity, and illusion, I turn
to drawing, with an emphasis on tangible contact and the physical
transmission of information onto a surface. I make surface
tensions through a direct engagement with materiality; processes
such as rubbing, masking, stenciling, and staining coexist.
Recently, printmaking and ceramics have provided process
insights that contribute to new textural elements in my painting.
Current influences and preoccupations include morphology,
disembodiment, and divergence, empathetic relationships, and
repressed affectivity; I am interested in diagrams, headstrong
horticultural colors, shape transformations, and boundary shifts.
In my work, presence and absence play off each other, creating
space in which bewilderment and vulnerability become a powerful
agent for experiencing invisible and unnameable alliances, and
for reframing and reimagining relationships among multiple
visions.
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