The Clearing (oil and acrylic on canvas, 48" x 60") 2025.
Naming Ceremony (detail, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72") 2025.
Cave Drawing #1 (6" x 7" x 18" ink on paper) 2025.
Teal Vessel (oil and acrylic on canvas, 72" x 60") 2025.
Cave Drawings (assorted, 12" - 28", ink on paper) 2025.
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.
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 (detail) 120" x 72" oil, acrylic, 24k gold; 2024