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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Residency: Nirox Foundation, South Africa
July 2013 Sophia was invited to spend a 4 week period to focus on her work. South Africa’s traumatic social history, its remarkable transformation and its diversity of culture and landscape, is a crucible for …
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Award: The Artist’s Resource Trust
June 12, 2013 The Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.), a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, today announced the August 1, 2013 deadline for applications. In 2012, grants of $125,000 were awarded to 20 individual artists …
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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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Somerville Art’s Council: Sophia Ainslie, February Artist of the Month
February, 2013 A collision of x-rays / sketches / maps, often addressing absence / loss / what’s left, Sophia Ainslie’s large-scale productions envelope viewers in a ravishing shock of severed shapes encountering one another to create new …
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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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Award: Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Painting
Sophia Ainslie awarded 2012 Artist Fellow in Painting by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Ainslie is one out of the eight painting fellows, selected from 531 applicants. The awards come with a $7500 stipend for each …
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New York Drawing Center Viewing Program
Sophia Ainslie has been accepted into the Viewing Program of The Drawing Center, located in SoHo, New York. The Drawing Center is the only fine arts institution in the U.S. to focus solely on the …
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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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