About the Work
Drawn from her 2022 painting Studio with Nemo and Nadine, this print offers an intimate view into Sophie Treppendahl’s New Orleans studio — a space she occupied for four formative years. Sunlight moves across a dense interior filled with painting materials, books, and postcards, where the accumulation of daily practice becomes the subject itself. Rather than organizing the scene around a single focal point, Treppendahl builds a composition that invites the eye to wander. Objects, surfaces, and gestures carry equal weight, creating a sense of rhythm that mirrors the act of looking and working. The presence of Nemo and Nadine, two cats who wander in from a neighboring studio, introduces a quiet sense of movement and permeability, softening the boundary between inside and out. As in her paintings, the image resists fixed representation. Pattern and color begin to shift and loosen the structure of the space, allowing observation and memory to overlap. The result is not a static record of the studio but a lived, evolving environment. This edition has been hand-finished by the artist, with each print carrying subtle variations that reflect the immediacy of her process. Produced in a limited series of 14, the work extends Treppendahl’s interest in how spaces hold feeling and how painting can transform the everyday into something resonant and alive.
Artist Biography
Sophie Treppendahl (b. 1991, Baton Rouge, LA) is a painter whose work explores color, domestic space, and the emotional texture of everyday life — often drawing from her immediate surroundings and personal relationships. Working from photographs and drawings, she builds compositions that move between representation and abstraction, using pattern, light, and gesture to evoke the feeling of a place rather than its exact likeness. Her paintings center on interiors, objects, and figures, reflecting an ongoing interest in care, memory, and the environments we create for ourselves. Through a layered and intuitive process, Treppendahl allows each work to shift and evolve, prioritizing sensation and atmosphere over strict depiction. Treppendahl received her BFA from the College of Charleston in 2013. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Philip Martin Gallery, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Jack Hanley Gallery, and Johansson Projects, among others. She has participated in residencies at the Golden Foundation, 100 W Corsicana, The Provincial, and The Wassaic Project, and her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Whitehot Magazine. She lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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