Two contemporary female artists, sculptor Anne Cecile Surga and painter Sophie Ullrich, make their Miami debut in a dual exhibition curated by Valeria Schäfer.

Anne Cecile Surga and Sophie Ullrich exhibit together for the first time, presenting Surga’s respective marble sculptures and Ullrich’s oil paintings in a harmony of abstract, yet suggestive forms.

Piero Atchugarry Gallery is pleased to announce A glimpse of..., a dual exhibition which tells the story of two female artists, sculptor Anne Cecile Surga (b. 1987, Lavelanet, France) and painter Sophie Ullrich (b. 1990, Geneva, Switzerland). Though they have never met, and they couldn’t be more different in terms of material, curator Valeria Schäfer posits a complementary relationship between their work, predicated upon their shared subtle gestures and impressions which express the fleeting nature of existence. Anne Cecile chose marble as her signaturematerial in 2013 while studying at the Fundación Pablo Atchugarry in Uruguay. She transforms the hard material into a deceptively soft and pliable one; traces of human handprints effortlessly drag through the marble, while other pieces appear to slump under the force of their own weight. Her works have been shown internationally, and can be found in the public collection of Museo MUST, Vimercate, Italy, and in the private collection of Pablo Atchugarry. Anne Cecile has won several prizes for her work, including the YICCA Art Prize in 2017, the Mary Beth Gutkowski Scholarship in 2019, and the On Form bursary in 2020. In 2015, she opened her studio in the Pyrenean Mountains in France where she still lives and works. Sophie Ullrich studied painting and visual arts in the class of Eberhard Havekost at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The young German artist packs her paintings with art-historical references, combining the life-like renderings of female figures that dominated renaissance painting with comic-like symbols that condense language of hieroglyphs with that of advertisement and its co-option in the movement of neo-expressionism. Gallery goers in Luxembourg first discovered her work in the group exhibition Just So Stories at Nosbaum Reding in 2019. Her work has since been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, among others at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf and Tapetenwerk in Leipzig. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.

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