About

Artist Statement
I work in watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil, and I paint on paper as well as on found objects, which evoke another time and the lives of those who once owned them. Using my photographs of decaying architectural interiors as a reference, I develop the background of my pieces, layering surrealistic elements to create narratives within those spaces. The works explore abandoned architecture as a meditation on impermanence — how the present inevitably becomes the past. Institutional settings reflect on themes of solitude and the mindsets of those who once lived within them. Even the grandest architectural masterpieces may one day crumble, either deemed irrelevant or overtaken by nature, leaving behind only traces of what once was. 

Bio
Zofie King (b. Lodz, Poland, raised in Kleve, Germany) is an artist based in Arlington, Virginia. She earned a BA in psychology in 2002 before pursuing studies in interdisciplinary craft at Towson University, interior design at MICA, and exhibition design at the Corcoran.

King has maintained a dedicated studio practice since 2011, working in found object sculpture and water-based media paintings. Her gothic surrealist work creates psychological narratives within decaying architectural spaces.

She has had solo exhibitions at Second Street Gallery, Fred Schnider Gallery, Hillyer, NVCC Margaret W. Fisher Art Gallery, DC Arts Center, Mount St. Mary’s University Gallery, Gallery Blue Door, and CHAW, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions along the East Coast. She was a member of the Sparkplug Collective (2017–2019), Washington Sculptors Group (2018—2022) and is a member of the Washington Print Club. Her work is held in numerous private collections, as well as the DC Art Bank.