South African native picked to create mural for Brockton’s Enso Flats Gallery NOVEMBER 11, 2015 |By Ella Torres GLOBE CORRESPONDENT After a months-long search, artist Sophia Ainslie was chosen to create a permanent mural in Brockton’s Enso …
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Boston Globe: Cate McQuaid reviews Sophia Ainslie’s show ‘Pata Pata’
Motifs, contradictions, changed orientations in gallery shows September 22, 2015|By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent SOPHIA AINSLIE: Pata Pata At Gallery NAGA, 67 Newbury St., through Oct. 3. 617-267-9060, www.gallerynaga.com Sophia Ainslie’s abstract paintings on paper have …
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Boston Home: Inside Out, By Lauren Beaven
Summer 2015 When Sophia Ainslie’s mother passed away in 2009, the Somerville-based artist strove to connect to her through art. She began experimenting with an x-ray of her mother’s abdomen—rendering it in colorful fragments, and …
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The Huntington News: Public art initiative comes to Ryder Hall, By Rebecca Sirull
Thursday, December 4, 2014 Sophia Ainslie commissioned by Northeastern University’s President Aoun’s Public Art Initiative to create a site specific wall drawing on campus in the College of Arts, Media and Design. Visitors to Ryder …
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News @ Northeastern: Joe O’Connell – Permission to paint on the wall.
Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media & Design, Ryder Hall Lobby. Painting on a finished wall is typically discouraged. But for College of Arts, Media and Design lecturer Sophia Ainslie and a group of …
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ARTFETCH: Freeze-Framing a Hurricane by Celine Browning
March 27, 2013 At first glance, the work of Sophia Ainslie can seem like a force of nature: a freeze frame of a hurricane, gales of form and colour swirling against a blank, static background. Her work …
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ArtScope: Sophia Ainslie: “in person” at Kingston Gallery, By Lindsey Davis
Friday, February 1st, 2013 Boston, MA – Two girls stretch atop ladders with bright colors on the ends of their brushes, carefully filling in morphing feathered sections of wall at the Kingston Gallery. Another girl …
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Talking Writing – A Literary Magazine: Judith A. Ross interviews Sophia Ainslie
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 …
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Boston Globe: Cate McQuaid reviews Sophia Ainslie’s show ‘Inside Out’
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 …
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ArtScope: Franklin W. Liu profiles Sophia Ainslie
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 …
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