Wednesday, May 3 at 3:30pm

SOU Meese Auditorium – Art Building (next to the SMA)
555 Indiana Street | Ashland OR 97520

FREE, and open to the public

Free parking is available in designated lots.

Join us on Wednesday, May 3rd at 3:30 pm for an in-person Creative Industries Discussion with visiting artist Sophy Naess. Naess is the Summer VAST (Visiting Artist and Scholar in Teaching) resident at SOU.

Sophy Naess (b.1982, Chicago, Illinois) is trained as an oil painter and maintains an active multidisciplinary practice that includes weaving, writing, and various print-based projects. Observational painting is a constant in her work, and in recent years she has produced expressive wall-sized tapestries at the same time as creating thematic albums of smaller paintings on canvas.

Naess received her B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 2004 and M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 2013. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Veda (2023); April in Paris (2021); 17 Essex (2018); The Middler (2017) and 321 Gallery (2016). Her work has appeared in group shows at Kerry Schuss, Heroes Gallery, The New School, Chapter NY, Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali galleries in New York City, as well as institutional shows at Växjö Konsthall in Sweden and the Albuquerque Museum in the US. Naess is a Senior Critic in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art where she teaches undergraduate drawing and painting courses as well as the graduate “Fabric Lab” course.

More information at sophynaess.com