Marjorie Sopkin

Marjorie has lived along the Connecticut shoreline all her life, from Westport to Fairfield to Black Rock to Stony Creek and finally to Guilford, where she has been for the last 35 years. Water is and has been a primary element from the onset and while she has used it in various ways, it has almost always been present or implied in her work. She is interested in its reflective properties and how its movement carries things. Her marks are symbolic of living entities – schools of fish – for instance, coexisting in a pretend but pleasant world, or a Murmuration – birds in flight. Color is paramount as are the shapes she creates, often used to suggest camaraderie and cooperation. Oftentimes her work is playful or humorous, as if telling a story.