Honeycombed with Light

Sol Kjøk

Sol Kjøk (*1968) is a Norwegian-born New Yorker living in Brooklyn @ Mothership NYC, the international arts collective and residency platform she founded in 2005. Sol has lived and learned in six countries and holds three graduate degrees in humanities, as well as an MFA in painting from Parsons School of Design in NYC. An avid drawer all her life, Sol has attended artist residencies worldwide and taught at universities and art schools throughout the US. Her work, which originates as performance, has been exhibited in 20+ countries spanning four continents. Sol’s process starts out as an acrobatic exercise where she and her artist friends pose together using circus contraptions. This collaborative, physical-boundary testing origin is at one with her paintings’ message: Western civilization is now at a pivotal point where cutting-edge science is starting to prove what mystics and ancient cultures have always intuitively known: All matter in the universe exists in a web of connection and constant influence; thought is simply another form of transmitted energy actively shaping our world. The consequence is no less than a revolutionary paradigm shift: We are oneness having the experience of separateness.