My art is rooted in Neo-Expressionism, born from a personal quest for identity after decades of emotional restraint. I paint as an act of rebellion — a liberation from the structured, corporate world where vulnerability had no place. What emerges on canvas is a language of bold color, intense texture, and deliberate chaos, where I confront and transform everything I was once taught to suppress.

I carry the influence of artists who painted with raw honesty and fearless instinct:

• Joan Mitchell — for her ferocious emotional energy,

• Lee Krasner — for her perpetual metamorphosis and inner reckoning,

• Jackson Pollock — for his instinctual movement and unrestrained gesture,

• Helen Frankenthaler — for allowing color to dissolve boundaries and breathe.

My surfaces are raw, aggressive, and tactile — a collision of trauma, memory, and personal narrative, echoing both Abstract Expressionism and Art Brut, the outsider impulse to create without apology. I belong to a generation of women reclaiming abstraction not as theory, but as autobiography: Feminist Autobiographical Art, sometimes called Emotional Abstraction. This is a post-corporate feminine rebellion, where painting becomes an embodied act of truth-telling.

Through abstraction, I explore what lies beneath titles, roles, and expectations — the hidden self. My work is not calculated; it is felt. Each layer, scrape, and rupture holds traces of silence, conflict, resistance, and rebirth. I call this process balanced chaos: a territory where power and fragility, structure and vulnerability coexist without contradiction.

Ultimately, my art is a return to voice — a reclamation of the self that learned to feel again.

Thank you!

-Sonia J.