Cave Drawing #1 (6" x 7" x 18" ink on paper) 2025.
The Clearing (oil and acrylic on canvas, 48" x 60") 2025.
Naming Ceremony (detail, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72") 2025.
Cave Drawings (assorted, 12" - 28", ink on paper) 2025.
Teal Vessel (oil and acrylic on canvas, 72" x 60") 2025.
Solo Exhibition
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Summer 2024
The intersection of the natural world and humankind is key to Sonja Schenk’s artistic practice, which explores this convergence through a variety of forms: painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. Like the light of the sun, the resources of the earth are a one-way exchange: once removed, mined, extracted, used, or consumed they cannot be restored. Her project, Light for the Sun, is a futile gesture of atonement: Schenk is putting the gold back into California.
Light for the Sun II: We Emerge Without a Guide or a Map, upper diptych 120" x 72" oil, acrylic, 24k gold, on canvas; 2024 and Antipode of the Sun, lower diptych, 120" x 72" oil, acrylic, 24k gold on canvas, 2024.
Light for the Sun II: We Emerge Without a Guide or a Map, upper diptych (detail) 120" x 72" oil, acrylic, 24k gold; 2024