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.
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ArtScope: Sophia Ainslie: Detritus, by Franklin w. Liu
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 …
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Boston Globe: Sharp art, in place of sharp fashions, by Cate McQuaid
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 …
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The Huntington News: Turning the ‘Tide’ on art, by Dinah Alobeid
August 10, 2005 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 …
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The Phoenix: Follow your themes, by Christopher Millis
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, …
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Lowell Sun: Steppin’ Out: At the Galleries, By Nancye Tuttle
Thursday, April 7, 2005 Recycling materials go from trash to treasure. South African-born artist Sophia Ainslie takes huge bales of recycled detergent bottles and cuts them open. Then, she digs into the middle, pulling the …
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ArtsMedia: Fiber Artists Ask, Sew What, by Rebecca Tuch
One works with hair. Another uses hemp and pearl cotton. One’s work is a re-structuring of recycled plastics, while another utilizes scrap metal found along the cape cod shore. There is the one who incorporates …
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Stitches A Fiber Arts Collaborative
Newbury College Faculty Newsletter Volume 1, Issue Winter 2004 Sophia Ainslie’s work currently located on the lawn in front of the Academic Center, is part of Newbury’s Arthur Birkland and New England School of Art …
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Recycling Works
Sophia Ainslie’s raucous and aromatic installation at HallSpace comprises a one-ton bundle or recycled plastic bottles, a giant collage of drawings, and iris prints of photos of the bundled bottles.