The Brothership Building Window curated by Berkshire Art Center (formerly IS183 Art School of the Berkshires) will feature An Antidote to Despair by Wednesday Nelena Sorokin for the month of August.

Weather permitting, the artist will be on-site during Downtown Pittsfield’s First Fridays Artswalk happening from 5-8pm on August 5th.

Featured Paintings
1. Invitation to the Storm, oil on canvas, 9” x 12”
2. Lament For the People On Whose Land We Live. oil on
wood, 9” x 12”
3. The Myth of Separation, oil on canvas, 9” x 12”
4. Dreams of Miyazaki; Landscape for the End of Time,
diptych, oil on canvas 60” x 60”
5. An Angel Appeared, oil on canvas, 20” x 20”

Artist Bio & Statement

My enduring adventures with Jungian psychology, spirituality, and feminism are integral to my work. These paintings are journeys of discovery; the process is a collaboration with the unconscious. Painted during the pandemic, they respond to the tragedy of the Anthropocene in which technological advancements have outstripped our humanity, our connections to earth and to spirit. They point the way towards healing.

Primarily a painter, I began exhibiting at thirteen. I’ve also done Performance Art, comedy, and worked with clay and other three-dimensional media. I received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Studio Art from Smith College and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from James Madison University. I’ve taught art for over forty years and am currently on the faculty of the Berkshire Art Center. I’ve worked as an artist’s model in Western Massachusetts and New York City; worked in human services in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California with disturbed, abused, and neglected children; and worked with AIDS patients in San Francisco. I live in the Berkshires with forty acres of Nature Conservancy land in my backyard.

“Dreams of Miyazaki, Landscape for the End of Time” by Wednesday Nelena Sorokin