Sophie White with Leta Gray @Facture Gallery

November 10 – December 8, 2024

Born 1984 in New York, NY, Sophie White has lived and worked in Philadelphia, PA since 2009. She earned her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2017 and her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2006. Working primarily as a painter, Sophie makes sculptures and plays drums as well. The paintings exhibited will depict local construction of new luxury housing as it frantically multiplies in the Fishtown / Kensington area of Philadelphia. She has exhibited and performed at numerous arts spaces in Philadelphia, New York City and around the world.

Born 1987 in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate NY, Leta Gray has been living and working as an artist in the city of Philadelphia, PA for 14 years. She graduated in 2009 from SUNY Purchase, with a BFA in printmaking and sculpture. Leta has practiced the art of tattooing and played guitar and sung in numerous bands since 2004. This Tarot deck is a passion project that took shape over ten years, studying the realms of nature and the occult. The drawings being shown are part of a 78 card collection, “The Gray Tarot.” This hand drawn deck, created with ball point pen on watercolor paper, features a menagerie of North American Wildlife with mythological archetypes. The final product of this project will be a printed 78-card deck with a book, delving into duality and the profound teaching of the natural world. Her goal of this piece is to share the wisdom found in the interconnectedness of nature, and to express the radically transformative lessons found within nature and the Tarot. This deck shows both the positive path of evolution and also the negative road to destruction found in each card, giving the reader the choice of direction. Leta Gray can be found traveling the world doing custom tattoo pieces and has future goals of one day tattooing all of her tarot cards on individuals. With many card tattoos already homed in skin, she tattoos each card only once, and hopes to one day have created a “living deck”.

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 10, 2-4 PM 
Gallery hours by appointment only.
Contact: bill@facturepresents.com

Image: Sophie White, Front View, gouache on paper, 8″ x 8″, 2024