SOPHIA FRESE

ELEMENTAL DRIFT (150x200) is a reticular journey—a conceptual flight across a terrain that fundamentally disrupts normative orientation. The painting employs a biomorphic visual language idiomatic to the artist, expertly blurring the line between bodily shapes and landscape expectations. This process achieves a potent, asymmetrical relationship between vision and the systems of language, embracing the complexity of mapping while refusing its containment, ultimately enacting a profound merging of inner and outer states. The canvas plays with elemental hues: the raw, cool depths of cerulean and ultramarine contrast dynamically with the searing, bodily warmth of sienna. This chromatic tension generates a living, breathing landscape. The work’s commanding scale of 200×150 cm invites immersion and liberates the composition from any predetermined spatial axis, transforming the act of viewing into a dialogue of autonomy and perception. Created with oil, natural pigments (including iron oxide and sienna), and enamel on canvas, Elemental Drift is currently featured at The Factory LIC in Long Island City, NYC, as a key selection for the NYC Art Week exhibition curated by Charles Moore.



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Casa Lü Sur / Mexico City



BLACK DOG 200x170 Pigments on Canvas Abstraction is a portal to an adjacent realm, a whisper of another world, in flux and perpetually moving dialectically between the tangible and the ethereal, between Thanatos and Eros. There is ease and freedom to be had in this uprising.

BERTA SAVES HERSELF 200x136 Raw Pigments, Acrylics and Oil on Canvas In Berta Saves Herself, varying layers of blue unfold in a charged interplay between transparency and opacity, evoking a realm adjacent to language and perception. Frese captures the erotic tension that arises in the space where forms resist definition, hovering between visibility and dissolution. The work becomes an invocation of self-rescue — a passage through ambiguity toward self-assertion, where meaning flickers, elusive yet profoundly felt.
2024

GAMMA RAYS Polyptych Installation 6x3 Meters This Polyptych plays with the idea of fusing inner and outer states in the concept of gamma waves, measurable brain activity when we meditate, dream and die. The Polyptych riffs on the visuals of gamma waves, while bringing down the sky and turning the world upside down in a form of camouflage, playing on the dialectics of the human-nature divide.
2023

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