Biography
SOPHIE INFARINATO (b. 1999, Oneida, NY)
is an emerging painter from Upstate New York. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Oswego in 2021 with her Bachelors of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting and a Minor in Art History. In her exploration with different mediums during her undergraduate studies, she fell in love with representational oil painting. Her work explores existentialism through the everyday, using depictions of people and places from her personal encounters. Infarinato has exhibited her work in multiple regional juried shows, as well as received many honors and awards, including the Dean’s Writing Award for Art History in 2020, the Grant Arnold Award in 2020, the Student Scholarly Creative Activity Grant in 2020, and the Aulus Sanders Service Award in 2021. Most recently, in May 2021 she had her first solo exhibition, Captured Moments, at the Timothy McHenry Gallery in Oswego, NY, and then went on to show the series again at the Oneida Lake Arts and Heritage Center in Sylvan Beach, NY. |
Artist Statement |
Over the past couple of years, existentialism has become a major theme in my paintings. I am interested in how the depiction of the environments and people that surround me can create a narrative about a specific moment in time and the pervasive impermanence of all things. My work explores my personal relationships and internal contemplations by projecting myself onto my external environment. I often employ fragmentation, exclusion of detail, distortion, and exaggeration of color in order to express my emotional intent candidly. These elements create an enigmatic feeling and create mystery and distance to seemingly familiar and commonplace scenes.
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