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Sofia Carmi born in Jerusalem, Israel, April 19, 1960 and was raised in 4 countries - Israel, Finland, Canada, and USA. Currently she lives in San Francisco, CA. in a designated art building.

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Carmi describes herself as a modernist, painting in the contemporary time. She holds a BFA from OCA (Ontario College of Art), Canada and a MA in Clinical Psychology from New College of CA, San Francisco, CA.

"Art is in my blood. It's a way of life"

For Carmi, abstract art is a mix of memory, mystery, colour, form and texture, that captures the viewer, forcing an interpretation not immediately apparent. An Israeli native, she was closer to the centre of the European art movement while living in Jerusalem, influenced both by surrealist painters and the desert landscape surrounding her. https://iicsanfrancisco.esteri.it/iic_sanfrancisco/en/.../abstract-memories-visions.html

Her aunt, Lea Vogel, was a Holocaust survivor and renowned Israeli sculptor who also had a profound influence on her art.

Carmi was encouraged by Roy Ascott who was president of OCA, (he moved to SFAI (San Francisco Art Institute) in the 70's and she followed him to San Francisco to study art and psychology), as well as the late Fred Spratt, gallery owner and painter, San Jose, CA, and the late Charles Campbell, gallery owner, San Francisco, CA. campbellgallerysf.com/exhibitions/07-06-summer/index.htm Fellow artist and professor Irene Pijoan, was a major influence. www.conversations.org/story.php?sid=147

Carmi has exhibited in solo and group collections in Canada, the USA, Israel and Europe - in galleries, cultural centres and museums. https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/257633-sofia-carmi She traveled and lived in Europe between 1992-1997 exhibiting in Prague, Czech Republic; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Berlin, Germany.

She was married to writer David Winterburn and late husband, artist Brent Bushnell.

Carmi was a board member of the Santa Cruz Women's Caucus of Art. clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=artist_index&p=c

“I strive to push myself and women's art.”

Carmi is best known for her abstract paintings that are bold and bright and often thickly layered.

Carmi strives to push herself both as a modern and contemporary painter, pushing paint in oil, acrylic, mixed media and watercolour. cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2016/09/sofia-carmi-at-mosser-hotel.html  https://www.moderneden.com/pages/sfos

Exhibits in cultural centres such as Alliance Francaise  and Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, display her international influences. https://agvilvelino.it/.../cultura-san-francisco-la-mostra-abstract-me.

Carmi links her Jewish influence through her Tree of Life series ‘Kabbalah’, that was exhibited at the  Jewish History Museum, Joods Historich Musuem, Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1995 and at the Italian Cultural Institute, 2018, linking her Jewish Italian heritage. Her Peace in Hebrew letters series was exhibited in 1990 at Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (formerly Judah Magnus Museum) Berkeley, CA,  https://www.hollanderbooks.com/.../personal-landscapes-universal-visions-a-northern-. Stanford Art Spaces, 2013 museum.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/en/exhibitions/?artist=Carmi,%20Sofia&list= and in the Israel Museum Data Centre.

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ARTICLES

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/02/09/belmont-museum-exhibit-is-all-about-love

www.artbusiness.com/1open/070915a

https://artistinterviews.wordpress.com/

https://www.potreroview.net/artist-sofia-carmi-explores-inner-and-outer-worlds/