March 1 - April 3, 2025
From Archway Gallery:
“Archway Gallery presents Intimate Geographies, featuring new paintings by Becky Soria, on view March 1 – April 3, 2025.
Traversing the territory of the body, Soria’s paintings exhibited in Intimate Geographies, come into focus not as objective and impersonal but rather as intensely personal and intimate. While preparing for this exhibit, Soria was aware of her involvement in an evolution that had become real throughout all her years of creating art. Concerned with sensitive issues about women and the world we all live in, she strove to represent the vast territory that is human experience through images that map those experiences to the topography of the physical and energetic human body. The bodies in her paintings are the surface below the surface of both the physical body and the body visualized by the Ego.
This collection of abstracted but viscerally real figures grapples with her and our collective experience that is a culmination of all her years that connect art, our travails, and concerns for life itself. Soria dedicated herself to representing her journey of 40 years as an artist in these works of intimate geography.
Her artistic journey also interweaves explorations of humanity’s cultural history, nature, and the evolution of feminine archetypes. Soria fuses prehistoric art, mythological themes, influenced as a young girl by her father’s collection of pre-Colombian art. She also draws on historical goddess figures as archetypal representations of an increasingly empowered postmodern woman.
In the works of this show, Soria has used mostly acrylic paints, some charcoal, and in certain works, incorporated cardboard, rope, and paper.
About the artist: Becky Soria, an American born in Bolivia, began her artistic career in the 1980s. She studied painting in the studios of South American artists, and with the artist and philosopher Dr. Fernando Casas. She also attended The Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas. Her works are included in corporate and private collections in the US, Europe, Canada, and South America.”
Reception: March 1, 2025 | 5–8 pm
2305-A Dunlavy
Houston, 77006 TX
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