Prey

Sophie Rae

This work is the visualization of the internal fight or flight instinct— more specifically, the feeling of suspension between running from a challenge, or pursuing it head on. It asks the viewer, "Do you fall victim to challenge, or do you prey upon it ?”

 I generally create larger-scale works that allow me to question the relationship between my upbringing and the world today. Through overlapping layers of thought, I begin a painting from simply a vision of color and an idea, and continue layering until a conversation of color and phrase forms within each work. These visual conversations frequently include overlapping themes of love and death, animals and anatomy, and religion and emotion.

Sophie Rae is an acrylic painter and graphic designer, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and currently based between Scottsdale, AZ, and Boston, MA. She received her B.S in Advertising from Boston University in 2018,
and has been painting since before she can remember.