Sophia Flood received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a 2016 participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and a 2017 resident at the Marble House Project in Dorset, VT. Her work has been exhibited at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Curve Line Space, Los Angeles, CA; Elsa Lee Bruno, Los Angeles, CA; Sadie Halie Projects, Minneapolis, MN and Brooklyn, NY; Spring Break Art Fair, New York, NY; Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York, NY; and Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA, and has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, The Coastal Post, Hyperallergic, and New American Paintings. In 2021, she co-organized The Emplacement Society with artist Christina Mesiti. 

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My semi-abstract paintings are built in a tactile language of stains, scrubby brush marks, material residues and dry veils of color. Departing from a range of sources and experiences, often rooted in geology or place, I works with moments of inversion and collapse – the passage from bone to fossil, for instance, or exchanges between positive and negative space. In painting, I negotiate between the map and the terrain, abandoning my source material to a puzzle of structure and intuited form and allowing the image to reappear slowly, both uncovered and generated by interwoven layers. I feel for the shifting edges of forms that seem embedded in time, in memory, in the earth, or in a body.

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