On the Cover : "Drawing with Friends"
By Sophie Treppendahl
A native of St. Francisville currently working in New Orleans, artist Sophie Treppendahl, with her warmly-rendered observational depictions of life by the moment, has come to represent Louisiana’s native inspirations on the larger global art scene—with her work being displayed in galleries and exhibitions from Berlin, to Los Angeles, to Virginia, to the The New York Times arts section. Inviting and luxurious indulgences in the tableau of human creative spaces, her artwork is easy to love. “Drawing with Friends” shoves the viewer directly into a position of art making, art loving, art studying—which is the posture from which we hope our readers will approach this Visual Arts issue, chock-full of museum and gallery guides, artworks currently on exhibit, and celebrations of some of our region’s most influential contemporary artists.
About the Artist
Sophie Treppendahl paints quiet scenes that capture ordinary moments of unexpected bliss. Using light as a tool for abstraction, the artist’s compositions frequently depict colorful interiors full of shapes and shadows—playgrounds for paint and patterns that are rarely populated by figures. Treppendahls’s work explores how the associations contained in pleasant reminiscences bring us together.
Sophie Treppendahl was born in 1991. The artist received a BA in Painting and Printmaking from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina in 2013, and lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
See more of Treppendahl's work at sophietreppendahl.com.