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Soshana has had to personally combat some of the past century’s most conceptually riveting social battles, including undergoing a feminist revolution in her own right. She reflected on her hardest time being in Paris in the 50’s. At that time it was “very difficult and hard to exist as a woman artist. Many galleries did not want woman artists, no matter how good they were... At that time the Director of the Gallery de France in Paris, a woman herself, said to me: “we do not want woman artists because they get married and have children, and we have to invest 20 years of money to build up an artist.” Many galleries thought and acted similarly.” This antagonism infuriated and propelled her, to a hallmark exhibition in 1957.
That year, Soshana received an invitation by the Chinese Cultural Ministry to participate in an exhibition at the Imperial Palace in Peking, China. Inspired by Zen and Chinese brush painting where one attempts to express everything with one stroke, Soshana declared, “My work has changed completely” This change resulted in a spirited shift of identities with regard to both her personal contacts and her artistic work. In her work of this period, the paintings borrowed from classic Chinese calligraphy and she maintained a palette of appropriately dark and subtle tones.
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However, as her journey took her to Japan, India, Cuba and Mexico, her ‘collection of worlds’ expanded and the strokes of her brush revealed a new willingness to experiment. Her later works range from being tragically sonorous to resoundingly joyous. Magnificent bursts of color peek out from behind palpitating lines in her deeply emotive, Abstractionist works. In essence, her hues communicate her emotional centeredness as her lines stress the restlessness of a woman forever yearning to tell her story. Soshana lets her canvases tell their own story. “I express everything through my paintings. When you look at them you can see what I want to say.”
Soshana’s intimacy with the heights of world culture and the depths of history’s darkest moments, coupled with her uncompromising commitment to the truth, present works to us that are records of an individual artist’s vision as it perceives history both personal and worldwide. Her paintings relate universal truths through the depiction of intimate subjects, and a sustained commitment to inner reflection through even the darkest moments of life. A lifelong traveler with a lifetime of tales that read like a historical narrative, Soshana’s paintings offer a true experience of coming home.
Website: www.soshana.com/index.html
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