Sophie Wahlquist
Germany
2 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Los Angeles
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Works by Sophie Wahlquist
As a German transplant to Los Angeles, Sophie Wahlquist’s work combines the dueling sensibilities of a historically rich European lineage of figuration in painting and California’s sun-drenched prism on the natural world. Wahlquist’s paintings depart from a state of mind rather than from a narrative. Playing with different genres of painting and medium, new gestures and perspectives reverse existing ideas. She likes to negotiate the level to which absence can be replaced by clarity of something intangible or how the depiction of something recognizable can become a trigger for imagination.
EDUCATION
2006 – 2008 BFA, Fine Arts, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, USA
2004 – 2006 Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Practicalities (La Vita Materiale), curated by Marina Dacci, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
If these walls could talk, Stephanie Ruth, London, UK Lace of Love and Bones, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Noodles + Kovackistan curated by Natalie Kovacs and Arnoud Verhaeghe, Los Angeles, CA
Full Circle, curated by Carl Larsson, Kellogg Doolittle House, Joshua Tree, CA
2021 Summer Group Exhibition, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Works on Paper, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2018 PLAY, Arcade Project, London, UK
2017 Buoyant In The Undercurrent, curated by Anna Redeker, hosted by MAVRA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012 O FIM, Galeria St. Antonio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ich sehe was was du nicht siehst, Galerie LackeFarben, Berlin, Germany
La poétique de l’espace, Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris, France
2010 Art Barter, HBC, Berlin, Germany
2009 Galerie Kuckucksnest, Berlin, Germany
Let’s Go Home, S-Kai, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Senior Citizen, Gallery MC, New York, NY
The Drawing Exchange, Parsons Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
City Symphonies/ Urban Muck, Parsons Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA