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Ellen Sokoloff
My goal in art is to become a master, the very best artist I can be.
Ellen has been a professional, sought-after artist since she was 18 with a style influenced by Sergeant, Homer, Hopper, and Charles Burchfield, her favorite painters. She enjoys architecture and she feels the souls of the buildings they inhabit and tries to put that feeling into her paintings. She is especially interested in pre-computer generation architecture, which is a quickly disappearing phenomenon taken over by franchises that make every town look the same.
Her art has won awards on both coasts and paintings in many public and private collections including the Newburyport Public Library, City Hall, the Cushing House Museum, and the Dalton Club, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Gallery representation includes West End Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC and Assunta Fox Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, Recent shows include: Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO, Pink Cafe, Unitarian Universalist Church, Whole Foods Art Space, El Gancho, and La Fonda all in Santa Fe, NM. She has been a member of the Copley Society in Boston, the Marblehead Arts Society, the Cape Cod Art Association, the Graphic Artist's Guild, and the New Mexico Watercolor Society. Her work has also appeared in Artists USA. Currently she is an associate member of the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society. Influential teachers include Don Andrews, Guy Correiero, Betty Lou Schlemm, Mary Robbins, Frank LaLumia, and other artists. Jean Savage Abbott, Sokoloff’s late mother-in-law, a well-known artist from Rockport, MA introduced Sokoloff to the Rockport artists where she would often join them for life drawing, plein-air paint-outs, or just talking art at the local coffee shop. This led to many opportunities in art groups and illustration projects in the Boston area, including 150 illustrations for a history book on Beverly, MA and house portraits for local real estate groups who would give them as gifts to their clients. She also created a pony for the Trail of Painted Ponies benefit project in NM. Formal studies include traditional art at a private art academy in Tucson, AZ, commercial and fine art at the University of Arizona, fashion design at Traphagen in NYC, fine art and children's illustration at Montserrat, Beverly, Mass., fine art at the Manchester Institute for Arts and Sciences, Manchester, NH, and an AAS degree in computer graphic design at SFCC in Santa Fe, NM. She enjoys painting house portraits and has built up a large body of collectors. Besides fine art, she has been illustrating for Sunset Magazine Custom Publications and Cisco Systems since 1999. Please see more details in the illustration category in portfolios.com/eesokoloff. Sokoloff currently resides in Santa Fe where she continues to paint in watercolor and oils. She returns to New England—especially Monhegan Is—each year to meet with fellow painters and old friends, to paint. |
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Assunta Fox Gallery
West End Art Gallery, Winston Salem, NC
Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO
Susan Swartzberg Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Sunset Custom Publications
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First place New England Library Assoc. for logo pen and ink drawing
Marblehead Arts Festival, Marblehead, MA
Jaycees honor of recognition
1st place Army Entertainment Troupe, SE Asia
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