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Sophia Schama

Info: Sophia Schama’s abstract painting is characterized by the tension between surface and space. Although she forgoes representational motifs, her paintings create a strong three dimensionality. Layers of color seem to overlap, shift and permeate each other. The spatiality in Sophia Schama’s paintings has not only a visual but also a tactile quality. The surface of her paintings often appears relief-like, the paint seems to detach itself from the canvas and assert its own space. In the interplay of hard, almost technical lines and soft, organic structures, Sophia Schama uses geometric elements that look like grids, tubes or architectural fragments, but never completely merge into a recognizable function. (…)