Sonya Sklaroff
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Sonya Sklaroff (November 7, 1970 - present) is a contemporary American painter best known for her cityscapes of New York City.
Born in Philadelphia, Sklaroff attended the prestigious Friends' Central School before going on to earn her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). While at RISD, Sklaroff won the Providence Art Award and was selected for the European Honors Program, where she studied under Friedrich St.Florian. Sklaroff later earned her MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York City where she studied under Faith Ringgold and Glenn Goldberg. While a student at Parsons, Sklaroff received a grant from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the World Views program, which provided her an artists studio on the 91st floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center.
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Sklaroff's early works were primarily on representational views of cityscapes and landscapes with a focus on the relationship between negative space, complementary colors, and contrast between light and dark. More recent works, while still exploring these themes, have included greater detail and more prominently feature scenes including people and traffic. Her cityscapes are particularly noted for her inclusion of New York City's water towers, which display an almost anthropomorphic character.
She also produces paintings of landscapes and interiors. Many of her landscape paintings have been produced either in Maine, where she visits Monhegan Island or nearby areas almost annually, or the American Southwest, where she has been an artist in residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Her work is currently displayed in the David Findlay Gallery (New York City), the Jenkins Johnson Gallery (San Francisco), the Cavalier Gallery (Nantucket, MA and Greenwich, CT). Collections with her works include the United States Department of Homeland Security, Fannie Mae, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Consul General of France (in New York City), and the Art Bank Program of the US State Department.
