Sofia Arnold

Utilizing mediums of oil, acrylic, and watercolor, figurative artist Sofia Arnold creates scenes that encompass a melange of intoxicated figures that dance, go about their daily rituals, and interact with creatures amongst lush foliage. Often working wet on wet, her surrealist images are often based on memories and daydreams from childhood and leave the viewer feeling like a witness to a secret.

"My work is a narrative-driven exploration of intentionally isolated communities, inspired by my early life as the daughter of 1970s era "back-to-the-landers" in the unglaciated hills of Southwestern Wisconsin." - Sofia Arnold

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Born in Avalanche, WI. Arnold studied painting and printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received Bachelor of Science in Art in 2010. Arnold currently lives and works in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

"The constant tension between the feral and the domestic, and the mundane details of carving out a life on the fringe remains a source of angst and fascination for me. Over time my working style has loosened and expanded while my focus has shifted to my own everyday surroundings and subconscious. I work quickly using a wet-on-wet technique to create lush, dreamlike scenes of half-remembered places. I pull from a rotating mental inventory of objects and characters that are clumsily recycled and often corrupted incrementally from piece to piece. I am trying to capture with paint what I see as the primal qualities of a place: the shifting sensory touchstones that confuse me about feeling at home, but also hemmed in and trapped." - Sofia Arnold