Sonia Ferrari

Innumerable influences and experiences find delicate, sensitive expression in Sonia Ferrari’s works on paper and canvas. The Argentinean artist’s parents owned and operated a movie theater, she was a successful model who later ran a modeling agency, and her total devotion to painting and sculpture has fused and developed these and other aesthetic sensibilities. Her work often portrays still lives, nudes, portraits and landscapes in a sparse, expressionist style, with the occasional abstraction suggesting an elemental struggle between order and chaos. Indeed, even Ferrari’s black and white portraits convey similarly tenuous boundaries between interior and exterior, thought and façade.

Many of her works feature inklings of cubism in their foregrounding of strong lines and geometric shapes, while paintings dominated by one bold color bring to mind Henri Matisse. Nevertheless, her gentle, intimate artworks reveal vulnerable places and faces, evoking immediate identification in the viewer. Drawing on her knowledge of bodies, forms and framing, Ferrari invites us into a rapport with her subjects.

The Latin American Art Exhibition
Reception: Thursday September 10, 2009 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates: 9/8/2009 - 9/29/2009

Invitation to Sonia Ferrari's exhibition

Mujer de Rojo Acrylic on Canvas 39" x 35.5" $2500 Mujer de Rojo Acrylic on Canvas 39" x 35.5" $2500	Del Blanco al Negro Acrylic on Canvas 27.5" x 20" $1800 Del Blanco al Negro Acrylic on Canvas 27.5" x 20" $1800
Angeles Latex on Paper 25" x 18" $1700 Angeles Latex on Paper 25" x 18" $1700	Don Juan Latex on Paper 25" x 18" $1700 Don Juan Latex on Paper 25" x 18" $1700