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I first saw Sophia Ainslie’s work this spring, when I wandered into Boston’s Kingston Gallery and Ainslie’s “Inside Out” exhi­bition. Her sharply defined white spaces and odd puddles of color pulled me into an intriguing new world. I knew I had to meet the artist. Fortu­nately, her studio is located in nearby Somerville, Mass­a­chu­setts. It’s …
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Inside tech­nique, attempts at expression April 20, 2011|By Cate McQuaid, Globe Corre­spondent SOPHIA AINSLIE: Inside Out At: Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., through May 1. 617–423‑4113, www.kingstongallery.com Connec­tions amid grief Sophia Ainslie matches flat passages of color against coursing gestures in India ink in her drawings at Kingston Gallery. These pieces have imper­ative and agency: They …
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Sophia Ainslie is profiled by Franklin Liu in the March/April (5th Anniversary) issue of ArtScope Magazine as one of “25 Artists Who Have Captured Our Imag­i­nation”. Her exhibit “Inside Out” will be at Kingston March 30 — May 1, with the opening reception Friday, April 1, 5–7:30 pm.

Visual arts professor Sophia Ainslie opened her “Crawlers 6” art exhibit March 9 at the Kingston Gallery in the South End to show Earth’s vulner­a­bility. North­eastern students helped with its installation.

Detritus is a word of consuming fasci­nation to South Africa-born artist Sophia Ainslie; it denotes small particles and mate­rials breaking away from a mass. The state of its ongoing meta­mor­phosis permeates human exis­tence. It’s a central theme she explores in her art while working and teaching in Boston.

With the eye-popping colors and the back and forth between the three-dimensional and two-dimensional, the work looks almost magical. It’s a wonderful vehicle for a compli­cated message about how the American obsession with clean­liness generates more and more trash.

Inside Wednesday, August 10, 2005 page 7 by Dinah Alobeid While walking toward her art display on Avery Street, Sophia Ainslie stopped to call attention to the ground where tiny flecks of material embedded in the concrete reflection in a shiny, almost jewel-like manner. “I’m inter­ested in seeing beauty in places you don’t generally find it,” …
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Tucked into a low-slung, century-old brick building in an indus­trial neigh­borhood not far from Boston Medical Center is one of Boston’s best-kept secrets. Inching into its second decade under the shrewd stew­ardship of John Colan, Hall­space belongs to that rare echelon of art galleries where the quality of the work super­sedes the bottom line. The current exhibit of South Africa-born, now Boston-based Sophia Ainslie under­scores Hallspace’s place as an important showcase for provocative, mean­ingful art.