Sophia Loeb

Sophia Loeb creates paintings that recall warped landscapes or amplifications of imperceptible biological processes, bridging the gap between human and microscopic environments. Vibrant tones and stark contrasts reveal the importance of sensorial reverberations in her work, luring viewers into a tactile, magmatic visual field. The artist’s process is dynamic and immersive: canvases are rotated, tilted, and worked from multiple angles, while materials—liquid and powdered pigments and oil sticks —are layered, scraped, and reworked in constant dialogue with the surface. Guided by matter itself, each color is applied with gestural motions, implying the artist’s interest in bodily involvement. This awareness stems from her early work as a sculptor, a discipline from which she draws physicality and touch, leading to dense, voluminous compositions in which multiple layers are held in tension.