Artist Presentation Response: Sophie Knee

Sophie describes her work as being informed by things she sees in her everyday life. She will see a form she likes, snap a picture to remember it, and then use that picture to inspire her work. She says "I make art about the things around me" she doesn't have some long bullshit philosophy or the idea that her inspiration is from something really profound and I really enjoy that about her work. It is very down to earth and concrete. She works in viscosity monotypes to produce multiple colors in, one printing, she describes the way she creates the work as an intersection of printmaking and painting. I really enjoy the subjects of her work, most of them are animals, and most of those are cats, which really fit well with my own work for this project. Her focus on the shape of the animal is also very important to me and it was inspiring to see someone using it in a different way.