Ellen Soffer
Ellen Soffer is a contemporary abstract painter. She creates paintings on canvas and paper, using mainly oils, but also gouache, acrylic, and watercolor. Currently in the studio, Soffer is focused on a range of large and small paintings where color and movement are emphasized. In addition to twenty solo exhibitions in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia, she has been featured in group exhibitions at the Mary Tomás Gallery, Dallas, TX, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX. Most recently she had a large exhibition at Artspace in Louisiana with over 60 paintings and works on paper. She is the recipient of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council’s Visual Arts Fellowship and has been awarded several residencies, including the Ragdale Foundation and Skowhegan, as well as selected for Studio Visit magazine and invited to lecture at Middle Georgia State College. Soffer earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. She lives and works out of her studio in Shreveport, LA.