Created 2015. Acrylic on Metal. Sofia Echa was born in 1992 in Vladivostok, Russia and settled in New York City in 2013 to continue her pursuit of a career in art after she received a bachelor degree in Economics and Japanese studies at Federal University of Vladivostok, Russia. Sofia features the reflective quality of water on canvas and metal. Cloud-like tufts of waves serve as a creamy, soothing caress atop an angular, hard base. Her narrowly-defined and powerful vision is an analogy of life as a constant interplay of opposing “feminine” and “masculine” notions: light and dark, soft and hard, fluid and rigid. These elements work together and are continuously recalibrating their ratios in order to reach equilibrium, or “enlightenment” for each given moment.

More about the Artist:
Sofia Echa was born in 1992 in Vladivostok, Russia and settled in New York City in 2013 to continue her pursuit of a career in art after she received a bachelor degree in Economics and Japanese studies at Federal University of Vladivostok, Russia. Before that, Sofia studied fine arts in Art School in Vladivostok and in Cambridge School Of Visual & Performing Arts, Cambridge, UK. Her works are in private collections in the United States and Russia. She is honored to have donated works to the 2015 National Academy Gala auction and to the 2016 Bailey House Auction. In September 2015, she had her first solo show in the Center of Contemporary Art Sol’ in Vladivostok, Russia.