With sweeping strokes, Sophia Belkin's fabric art flows in unexpected directions
Tina Coplan for Home & Design Magazine
November/December 2024 Issue
Tina Coplan interviewed artist, Sophia Belkin, for FIBER OPTICS in Home & Design Magazine's November / December 2024 Issue.
"My inspiration has always come from nature," says Belkin. Dressed in a white top and verdigris-turquoise jeans that echo the smokey palette of her compositions, she explains the specialized nature of her art: "I like that contrast between the fluidity of the water elements of painting that are unpredictable, and the tight, controlled embroidery parts..."
Among the [piles of fabric in Belkin's studio] are swaths of linen and denim that Belkin previously hand-painted. Treating the dyes as watercolors during that stage, she may have allowed them to spread and blend, perhaps throwing salt on the surface in one of several resist processes. Or she might have applied a wide brush to the fabric in broad gestures, producing striated, wavy lines and bumps that resemble woodcuts or sedimentary layers...
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Sophia Belkin will have a solo exhibition at HEMPHILL in January of 2025. Stay tuned for more information.