Sophie Grant’s practice incorporates drawing and painting, observation and abstraction. Concerned with language acquisition and memory, the paintings operate as daily landscapes invoking the blurred and mutable fluidity of free-form imagery. The paintings are a synthesis of formal interruptions which include staining methods from Color Field painting, stencil manipulations picked up from printmaking, and mark-making inspired by naturalist field studies. The artist received an MFA from Hunter College in New York in 2015 and a BA in Studio Art from The University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008. Grant attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015. She has been a former participant in The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program, Shandaken’s Paint School, The Hercules Art Studio Program, and The Keyholder Program at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York, NY, as well as a former resident at Interlude Artist Residency in Livingston, New York, The Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, Florida, and Painting’s Edge in Idyllwild, California. She is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Pace University and Baruch College. She recently mounted a solo show at Astor Weeks in NYC. Sophie Grant was born in Santa Cruz, California and lives and works in Lower Manhattan in New York City.