Archway Gallery Current Exhibition
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March 1 - April 3, 2025 Intimate Geographies Featuring new paintings by Becky Soria Closing Reception Saturday, March 29 5 – 8 p.m. Shop the Exhibition |
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Traversing the territory of the body, Becky Soria’s paintings exhibited in Intimate Geographies, a show at Archway Gallery, come into focus not as objective and impersonal but rather as intensely personal and intimate. While preparing for this exhibit, Becky 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. Her bodies 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, with the influence on her as a young girl of 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.
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, with the influence on her as a young girl of 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.
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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. |
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MARCH 2025 EXHIBITION EVENTS
March 1 (Sat) |
Opening Reception (5 - 8 pm) and Artist's Talk (6:30 pm) |
March 2 (Sat) |
AURA of University of Houston (6 - 7 pm) |
March 16 (Sun) |
Bob Henschen Jazz Trio (6 - 7 pm) |
March 22 (Sat) |
Group Acorde (7 - 8 pm) |
March 23 (Sun) |
Con Tempo Quartet (6 - 7 pm) |
March 29 (Sat) |
Closing Reception (6 - 8 pm) |