Pui Painting

Tia-Maria Soroskie is a multidisciplinary artist who creates work that explores, deconstructs, and reconstructs the female body. The utilization of remnants of clothing, fabric, and pattern layered together with fragments of history and text allow her to examine gender implications regarding expectations, as well as the construct of femininity. Tia-Maria holds a MFA in Drawing and Installation from Washington State University (2005). Her art has been exhibited nationwide, and in juried shows internationally which include a solo exhibition in Kelowna, British Columbia at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, a group show at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago Illinois, and more recently, group shows in Sibiu, Romania and in New York City, New York through Dacia Gallery. Her work is included in the permanent collection of The University of British Columbia Okanagan (President’s Purchase Award) and the Elizabeth Fry Society, and in a number of private collections. In October 2014, Tia-Maria was awarded a research-based residency abroad to be an Artist-In-Residence at DRAWinternational in Caylus, France. In November 2014, one of her graphite figure studies on tea-stained rag paper featured at the juried Figureworks 2014 show in Ottawa, Ontario was awarded a prize for “Best Use of Pigment” by Kama Pigments Matériel d'artistes (Montreal, Quebec). She lives and creates in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.