I’m thrilled to announce that I will be a resident at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans in April/May 2024!
Dinner Gallery at Untitled Art Fair in Miami
Sophia Belkin and Anna Ortiz
December 6-10
Untitled Art Fair, Booth B29
Dinner Gallery at NADA Foreland 2023
NADA is pleased to present the second edition of NADA Foreland, a collaborative exhibition to take place July 21–23, 2023 at Foreland’s 85,000 square foot arts complex during Upstate Art Weekend.
NADA Foreland 2023 features over 40 participating galleries in a collaborative exhibition cascading through Foreland’s historic Flagship Building and Waterfront; a community market featuring books, art objects and more in Foreland’s Bookhouse; a selection of premier food and beverage vendors across a sprawling waterfront lawn; and a robust series of live music, discussions, guided tours, and other performances throughout the weekend.
The exhibition will be open to the public Friday, July 21st through Sunday, July 23rd at 111 Water Street, Catskill, New York. The full program and schedule of events for NADA Foreland will be announced in the coming weeks.
Slice of Water opens March 9 at Dinner Gallery
Slice of Water
Sophia Belkin
March 9 - April 22, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 9th 6-8pm
Address: 242 West 22nd Street, Buzzer #1, New York, NY 10011
Dinner Gallery is proud to present Slice of Water, an exhibition of new paintings by Sophia Belkin. This is her first solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view from March 9th through April 22nd with an opening reception on Thursday, March 9th from 6-8pm.
Belkin’s work explores the transformation of energy between organic and inorganic materials within the ecosystem. She photographs images that are digitally printed on fabric and then collages them together with ink-dyed fabrics that resemble spliced specimens viewed under a microscope lens. The result is an amalgamation of micro and macro views that fluctuate between abstraction and representational imagery.
From afar, Belkin’s works reveal themselves as abstracted forms of plants or water droplets outlined by embroidery. Upon closer inspection, Belkin offers glimpses into her own visual diary through closely cropped images of daily objects, nature walks and magnified insects. Weaving these images together with the loose structures of the dyed-fabric, Belkin flattens perspective and makes these two disparate elements interchangeable. The use of materials echo one another and indicate the process of recycling and regeneration.
Inspired by her time in New Orleans, Slice of Water is Belkin’s poetic response to the city’s relationship with water. Geographically located in an area, where the infrastructure has been constructed, supported, and destroyed by water, she explores the power and omnipresence of nature. The fluid quality of water is mimicked in her treatment of dyes - allowing the pigment to flow or be constricted within her embroidered shapes.
Belkin’s practice is deeply rooted in environmental cognizance and sustainability. Drawing on the law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, she considers ways in which materiality is negotiated within the cosmos. Symbolized by her practice of recycling fabrics and images, Belkin reinforces this concept, constantly changing the state in which her materials and imagery are being engaged. In this way, she compels us to consider notions of how possessions live on long after they are gone from our lives.
"Wish You Were Here" at Ochi- Sun Valley, Idaho
"Tempter" at the Bobby Hotel, Nashville
Tempter
Midway between happiness & sadness
Boiling but never overflowing
Falls to only make a better comeback
More powerful & poignant & falls again
Destructive lust for life erected
On the verge pricked up like a picket
Fearing to respond to the tempting but
Malevolent call of the other side
-TEMPTER, BY STEREOLAB
LYRICS by LAETITIA SADIER & TIMOTHY JOHN GANE
1995
Exhibition Curator: Joshua Edward Bennett
January 8, 2023 - March 31, 2023
Bobby Hotel, Nashville
"Winter Garden" at A.P.T. Gallery, London
‘Winter Garden’ is an exhibition featuring Byzantia Harlow, Gregory Herbert, Hannah Lim, Karolina Dworksa, Katia Kesic and Sophia Belkin which takes the form of a greenhouse gone wrong. Here we can consider the space of the greenhouse, in particular its 19th century ideas/traditions, as a lens to consider sustainability and the climate crisis. A Victorian greenhouse of the future allows us to imagine what this former feat of human intelligence might look like in the landscape of climate change and whether or not it might even be possible or necessary. The artworks in this exhibition engage with biology and botany and transport us to other worlds and futures. Who knows what freaks of nature may flourish in an out-of-control environment of bizarre cross-pollination and alien life. Who knows what ideas we may draw from an image of a future not so distant, and not so unfamiliar.