Discipline: Visual Art

Sandy Sokoloff

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Milton Village, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1975, 1980

Sandy Sokoloff was educated in the New York City public school system and attended Queens College, CUNY on a Regents Scholarship before enrolling at Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1962. He received a BFA in 1966 and MFA in Painting, 1969. He then taught at Wellesley College (1969-76); Boston University (1977-78); Art Institute of Boston (1979-80). He had exhibitions beginning in 1973 and culminating in 1993 when he reached a spiritual and artistic impasse. He withdrew from the art world. Returning to the studio in 2013 after a twenty-year hiatus, he deepened his investigation into the spiritual nature of art. By 2019 he had produced a body of work which extrapolates the imagery of ancient Judaic mysticism and mounted the one-man exhibition ‘Emanation’. A year later (2020) his work was included in group exhibition ‘Transcendence’ along with artists Anila Quayyum Agha, Shahzia Sikander, and Zarina.

Studios

Alexander

Sandy Sokoloff worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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