Sokoloff attended Queens College, CUNY on a Regents Scholarship before enrolling at Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1962. He received a BFA in 1966 and MFA in Painting in 1969. He then taught at Wellesley College (1969-76); Boston University (1977-78); Art Institute of Boston (1979-80).
He had exhibitions beginning in 1973 and culminating in 1993 when he reached a spiritual and artistic impasse and withdrew from the art world, to isolate himself in the studio and deepen his investigation into the spiritual nature of art. He returned to his public practice in 2013.
By 2019 he had produced a body of work which extrapolates the imagery of ancient Judaic mysticism and mounted a one-man exhibition ‘Emanation’ at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont. A year later (2020) his work was included in ‘Transcendence’ (Burlington City Arts) along with artists Anila Quayyum Agha, Shahzia Sikander, and Zarina.
Sokoloff’s art practice manifests itself as a spiritual pursuit through the act of painting. He is influenced and inspired by Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Manet, Mark Rothko, Alfred Jensen, and his mentor Walter Murch. He lives and works in Northern Vermont.
Contact:
4 Champlain Landing, Grand Isle, VT 05458 sandyso@comcast.net 802-378-5274