Sobin holds her Master's and clinical Doctorate in Chinese Medicine. After years in both higher education (professor and academic dean) and seeing patients in the clinical setting, she finally retired from medicine to fully focus on her art. Over time, the journey to deeply delve back into her art went through several incarnations - all leading to the contemporary work she embraces today. Working with various mediums - oil and cold wax, watercolor, archival ink drawings and photography - keeps it lively. Sobin has participated in many group and juried shows in Arizona and Montana and is currently represented by multiple galleries across the western states. She considers home-base as anywhere her husband, dogs, and studio are located.
Artist Statement
I work in oil and cold wax creating vivid, topographical, sculptural, and multilayered paintings. As an abstract artist, I translate my perceived reality into color and shape, creating a "topography of place" in my work. Cross-pollinating ideas and visions from both the internal and external aspects of my environment and translating what I see and feel into my work is how I embody my creative process. It is just that - a process - one of discovery, learning and being. I want people to see and feel the connectivity from the self - the inner landscape, to the earth, terra firma - the outer landscape through the visual conduit of color, shape, and gesture that all inform the texture, light and movement of a piece.
In this sense, I consider my work as "abstract-expressive." My work is a journey. Having lived in different regions throughout time, the topography, people, flora, fauna and cultural aspects of place have added direction, depth and nuance into the stories they each hold, the stories that the viewer can integrate into their own internal landscape.
