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.
The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Sophie WahlquistKrake, 2022Ceramic, glaze, bulbs, wire and metal chain10 5/8 x 31 1/2 x 29 1/8 in
27 x 80 x 74 cm -
Sophie WahlquistSearch, find, select, grasp, position, assemble , release, wait, 2022Oil on canvas, fabric68 x 61 in
172.7 x 154.9 cm -
Sophie WahlquistSweetmeats, 2021Soft pastel on linen and raw canvas84 x 106 in
213.4 x 269.2 cm -
Sophie WahlquistCaptive Entertainment, 2020Soft pastel on linen and raw canvasOverall (triptych)
56 3/4 x 133 7/8 in
144.1 x 340 cm -
Sophie WahlquistPerch or Fly, 2021Oil, oil stick and soft pastel on canvas62 x 65 in
157.5 x 165.1 cm -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Oil, oil stick and soft pastel on canvas59 x 66 in
149.9 x 167.6 cm -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Oil, oil stick and soft pastel on canvas62 x 65 1/2 in
157.5 x 166.4 cm -
Sophie WahlquistPath to Paradise 1, 2021Glazed earthenware clay, bulbs, fixtures and wiringHeight: 76 in (193 cm)
Base: 18 in (45.7 cm) - diameter -
Sophie WahlquistPath to Paradise 5, 2021Glazed earthenware clay, bulbs, fixtures and wiringHeight: 81 in (205.7 cm)
Base: 24 in (61 cm) - diameter -
Sophie WahlquistPath to Paradise 3, 2021Glazed earthenware clay, bulbs, fixtures and wiringHeight: 66 in (167.6 cm)
Base: 24 in (61 cm) - diameter -
Sophie WahlquistPath to Paradise 6, 2021Glazed earthenware clay, bulbs, fixtures and wiringHeight: 75 in (190.5 cm)
Base: 15 in (38.1 cm) - diameter -
Sophie WahlquistAlina, 2021Oil on canvasFramed: 54 1/2 x 32 in
138.4 x 81.3 cm -
Sophie WahlquistAnd the Moon Under Her Feet, 2021Oil on canvasFramed: 62 1/4 x 48 1/2 in
158.1 x 123.2 cm -
Sophie WahlquistFruit of Fruits, 2021Soft pastel on canvas62 1/2 x 48 in
158.8 x 121.9 cm -
Sophie WahlquistM.A., 2021Oil on canvas62 1/2 x 49 in
158.8 x 124.5 cm -
Sophie WahlquistLast Night, 2021Oil on canvas9 1/4 x 11 3/4 in
23.5 x 29.8 cm -
Sophie WahlquistM.A. Resting, 2021Oil on canvasFramed: 47 1/2 x 42 1/2 in
120.7 x 108 cm -
Sophie WahlquistMy Child (1), 2021Soft pastel on linenFramed: 38 1/4 x 31 3/4 in
97.2 x 80.6 cm -
Sophie WahlquistMy Child (2), 2021Soft pastel on canvas26 1/2 x 24 in
67.3 x 61 cm
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Sophie WahlquistSheets 1, 2021Soft pastel on canvasCanvas: 65 3/8 x 47 5/8 in (166 x 121 cm)
Framed: 72 7/8 x 55 1/8 in (185 x 140 cm)
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Sophie WahlquistSheets 2, 2021Soft pastel on canvasCanvas: 63 x 51 1/8 in (160 x 130 cm)
Framed: 72 7/8 x 55 1/8 in (185 x 140 cm) -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2019Soft pastel and ink on paper
Framed: 73 x 55 1/2 in (185.4 x 141 cm)
Paper: 68 1/8x 51 1/8 in (173 x 130 cm) -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2019Soft pastel and ink on paper
Framed: 73 x 55 1/2 in (185.4 x 141 cm)
Paper: 68 1/8x 51 1/8 in (173 x 130 cm) -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2019Soft pastel, ink and spray paint on paperFramed: 55 1/2 x 73 in
141 x 185.4 cm
Paper: 51 1/8 x 68 1/8 in
130 x 173 cm -
Sophie WahlquistForest, 2019Soft pastel on paperFramed: 63 1/4 x 55 3/4 in (160.6 x 141.5 cm)
Paper: 58 1/2 x 51 in (148.6 x 129.5 cm) -
Sophie WahlquistGrowth, coming and going, 2019Soft pastel on paperFramed: 46 3/4 x 40 1/2 in (118.7 x 102.8 cm)
Paper: 42 x 35 3/4 in (106.7 x 90.8 cm) -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Glazed earthenware clay9 1/2 x 9 7/8 x 11 1/8 in
24 x 25 x 28 cm -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Glazed earthenware clay11 3/4 x 9 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
30 x 25 x 26 cm -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Glazed earthenware clay15 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
39 x 25 x 26 cm -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Glazed earthenware clay10 5/8 x 7 1/8 x 6 1/4 in
27 x 18 x 16 cm -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Glazed earthenware clay, light fittings9 1/2 x 10 1/2 in
24.1 x 26.7 cm -
Sophie WahlquistUntitled, 2021Glazed earthenware clay, light fittings8 x 7 3/4 in
20.3 x 19.7 cm
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Practicalities (La vita materiale)
Curated by Marina Dacci 5 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 more -
Sophie Wahlquist
Lace of Love and Bones 29 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,...Read more -
SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION
Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Pam Evelyn, Reuben Gordon, Iliodora Margellos, Francesca Mollett, Jebila Okongwu and Sophie Wahlquist 24 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 more -
UNTITLED, ART MIAMI BEACH OVR 2020 | IRL
Melinda Braathen, Reuben Gordon, Sophie Wahlquist 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 IRL from November 30...Read more -
Works on Paper
Melinda Braathen, Paolo Colombo, Francesca Gabbiani, Reuben Gordon, Dene Leigh, Daniel Silva, Sophie Wahlquist 8 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 a...Read more