Summer 2015

When Sophia Ainslie’s mother passed away in 2009, the Somerville-based artist strove to connect to her through art. She began experimenting with an x-ray of her mother’s abdomen—rendering it in colorful fragments, and juxtaposing those with black brush strokes. “The x-ray became a means for me to process her death and hold on to her memory,” says Ainslie, who eventually created an entire series of paintings, In Person, based on that original image. Some of the resulting pieces have been used as models for larger wall paintings.

Read more here: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/article/2015/06/02/sophia-ainslie/