Original Paintings by Sophie Costa

Born in 1967, self-taught painter, Sophie COSTA has devoted herself exclusively to painting since 2005. Torn cardboards, newspaper pieces, everyday materials and objects build and nourish the artistic work of Sophie COSTA. Warm, nuanced colors, handwritten and graphic writing, and varied textures leave on the canvas like an imprint, an energetic and living materiality. Influenced by A. Tapies and R. Rauschenberg, action painting of Pollock, the pop universe of A. Warhol, the trait of Cy Twombly and the street art of JonOne. Sophie COSTA accumulates and organizes multiple elements to leave a trace, a testimony, as a wink. She questions herself, testifies, quiets, challenges ...