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Eva Sochorova |
Born in Prague and raised in East Germany, Eva Sochorova received her art degree from Central Washington State University. She has studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with Wally Hedrick and at the Art Students’ League in New York with Larry Poons, Kikuo Saito. She has taught art both at Watkins Art Institute and in the Metro Nashville Public Schools and she is cofounder of the Nashville Collage Collective.
In 2008, New York’s Gallery and Studio Magazine described Sochorova’s work as “beautifully melded colors and geometric forms in the manner of the Russian Constructivists, albeit with softer, more lyrical paint handling” and referred to her pieces in a 2010 West Side Arts Coalition Exhibit as “gemlike paintings” with colors “palpable and intense, lending her work a magical aura.” She was awarded the “Best of Show” prize in the 2011 Temple Arts Festival, a national two and three dimensional art exhibit held in Nashville.
In recent years her work has been shown in galleries in New York City (most recently in Chelsea just before the onset of the pandemic) and in Nashville; and her work appeared in two episodes of the television series Nashville. In December 2015, she was part of an exhibition, “Women of Abstraction”, featuring art by what Nashville Arts Magazine described as “six of Nashville’s most notable abstract artists.”
An unaccomplished accordion player, she plans to perform in the connecting passageway of the New York City Union Square subway station in the not too distant future.
“I grew up in the totalitarian system of the German Democratic Republic where the printed word was propaganda and where there was little opportunity for genuine self-expression. I often find myself revisiting the experiences of my youth and my art cannot escape the impact of those experiences. The comfort and safety that I feel in working collaboratively with Lisa stands in such contrast to the insecurity that the Stassi bred into my generation.”
In 2008, New York’s Gallery and Studio Magazine described Sochorova’s work as “beautifully melded colors and geometric forms in the manner of the Russian Constructivists, albeit with softer, more lyrical paint handling” and referred to her pieces in a 2010 West Side Arts Coalition Exhibit as “gemlike paintings” with colors “palpable and intense, lending her work a magical aura.” She was awarded the “Best of Show” prize in the 2011 Temple Arts Festival, a national two and three dimensional art exhibit held in Nashville.
In recent years her work has been shown in galleries in New York City (most recently in Chelsea just before the onset of the pandemic) and in Nashville; and her work appeared in two episodes of the television series Nashville. In December 2015, she was part of an exhibition, “Women of Abstraction”, featuring art by what Nashville Arts Magazine described as “six of Nashville’s most notable abstract artists.”
An unaccomplished accordion player, she plans to perform in the connecting passageway of the New York City Union Square subway station in the not too distant future.
“I grew up in the totalitarian system of the German Democratic Republic where the printed word was propaganda and where there was little opportunity for genuine self-expression. I often find myself revisiting the experiences of my youth and my art cannot escape the impact of those experiences. The comfort and safety that I feel in working collaboratively with Lisa stands in such contrast to the insecurity that the Stassi bred into my generation.”
