Sonya Fe (born 1952) is an American
painter
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Personal life
Fe is one of eight children born to Jewish-American mother Ruth Goldfein and father Joseph Williams who was
Narragansett and
Mexican-American
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. Her parents raised their eight children in downtown
Los Angeles, California where Fe was encouraged to draw on the cement floors of their home.
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At age 13 Fe won a scholarship to participate in a summer program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Work
Fe's work reflects social and cultural issues with themes centering on child abuse/neglect and the woman place in society. Fe admits "The figures themselves are not anatomically correct-some have little definition. However, the faces are very defined, making the face the center of attention. My main concern is clearly with the relationships among these women's varying physical presence and at the same time bringing into equilibrium the active lines, and the colors that define them."
Collections
* National Museum of Mexican Art
* Museo Del Barrio-New York, New York
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* Carnegie Museum- Oxnard, California
* Morris Graves Museum- Eureka, California.
*Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art- New York, New York
* San Diego Art Museum- San Diego, California
*Smithsonian Museum
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- Washington D.C.
Notable exhibitions
*2007 Orange County Contemporary Art Center OCCA-Orange County, California
*2007 Studio 50, Inc-Los Angeles, California
*2006 Piante Gallery-Eureka, California
*2001-2005 Artist in Residence-Hoopa, California
References
External links
Official site
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1952 births
Living people
Painters from Los Angeles
American women painters
21st-century American women artists