b. 1983, Eckernfoerde (Germany) | Lives and works in Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
As a German transplant to Los Angeles, Sophie Wahlquist’s work combines the dueling sensibilities of a historically rich European lineage of figuration in painting and California’s sun-drenched prism on the natural world. Wahlquist’s paintings depart from a state of mind rather than from a narrative. Playing with different genres of painting and medium, new gestures and perspectives reverse existing ideas. She likes to negotiate the level to which absence can be replaced by clarity of something intangible or how the depiction of something recognizable can become a trigger for imagination.
Selected Artworks
Exhibitions
ART PARIS 2023
29 Mar - 2 Apr 2023Baert Gallery is pleased to present a duo exhibition by Melinda Braathen and Sophie Wahlquist at Art Paris 2023. Melinda Braathen’s painting seamlessly transitions between elements of skillful figuration and...Read moreFRIEZE LOS ANGELES 2023
16 - 19 Feb 2023Baert Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Sophie Wahlquist at Frieze Los Angeles 2023. Sophie Wahlquist ’s presentation for Frieze LA imagines Baert Gallery’s...Read morePracticalities (La vita materiale)
Curated by Marina Dacci5 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023Baert Gallery is pleased to present Practicalities, a group exhibition curated by Marina Dacci. The show takes its title from the journal of Marguerite Duras, originally titled La Vie Matérielle and translated into English as Practicalities, which wasfirst published in 1987. The exhibition is the result of a lengthy process of sharing and exchange of ideas by a grouping of women artists. The Los Angeles version will be the third iteration of the exhibition whose prior versions took place at the CENTRALE Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels Belgium (as La Vie Matérielle), and the Palazzo Magnani in Italy (as La vita Materiale). Works and venues have changed, but the spirit animating the project has remained the same. Practicalities is an invitation to look at everyday life through different eyeglasses, accepting its complexity and mystery, using the imagination and the ability to transform matter, to open the body and the mind, to know how to share.Read moreSophie Wahlquist
Lace of Love and Bones29 Jan - 12 Mar 2022One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night. — Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night” Baert...Read moreSUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION
Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Pam Evelyn, Reuben Gordon, Iliodora Margellos, Francesca Mollett, Jebila Okongwu and Sophie Wahlquist24 Jul - 18 Sep 2021Baert Gallery is pleased to present a Summer Group Exhibition featuring Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Pam Evelyn, Reuben Gordon, Iliodora Margellos, Francesca Mollett, Jebila Okongwu and Sophie Wahlquist. This group...Read moreUNTITLED, ART MIAMI BEACH 2020
30 Nov - 12 Dec 2020On the occasion of UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach OVR 2020, Baert Gallery is pleased to present new works by Melinda Braathen , Reuben Gordon and Sophie Wahquist from November 30...Read moreWorks on Paper
Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Francesca Gabbiani, Reuben Gordon, Dene Leigh, Daniel Silva, Sophie Wahlquist8 Feb - 28 Mar 2020Baert gallery is pleased to present Works on Paper , a group exhibition featuring Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Francesca Gabbiani, Reuben Gordon, Dene Leigh, Daniel Silva and Sophie Wahlquist. Encompassing...Read more
News
Sophie Wahlquist
Sophie Wahlquist is included in Frieze magazine's "10 Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles" December 20, 2022'This year’s Focus section promises a hotbed of up-and-coming talent, from an ambitious installation of ceramics by Sophie Wahlquist to Edgar Ramirez’s visceral works reflecting...Read moreSophie Wahlquist
Sophie Wahlquist's work is in 'The subject is ceramic' at Leon Benrimon Gallery in Los Angeles May 12, 2023The subject is ceramic April 29 - May 26, 2023 Leon Benrimon Gallery 8478 Melrose Pl Suite E Los Angeles, CA 90069Read more
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