About

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Misty Sol's interdisciplinary practice is like a sepia toned family photo album in technicolor. Misty explores Black people’s connections to nature, wellness, and speculation. Her figurative painting and portraits, stories, and eco practice are heavily influenced by the common histories, everyday stories and culture of Black people. Particularly, her grandmother’s history as a migrant farmworker, midwife, and gifted storyteller in early 20th century America. Misty’s work inherits a sense of narrative, sensuality, magic, timelessness, hope, the bucolic and fecund. But also contained are senseless abstractions, images of stark violence, and the weight of oppression. Ultimately she uses these elements to distill elements of dignity, legacy, humor, and connection. With acrylic color vibrant as her gardens, the gurgle of a stream, a hymn her grandmother used to sing, the smell of sauteed onions, and the coolness of garden soil, she creates a body of work that explores and affirms the nuanced experiences of Black people.

Misty Sol currently serves as the director of Tiny Farm Wagon, a fiscally sponsored project dedicated to public art and wellness. Her work has been exhibited at the Wolfhound Studio in the Zhou B. Art Gallery in Chicago, Burlington College, Headlong Theatre, The Moore College of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vox Populi, Bartram's Gardens, the Philadelphia Airport, and Widener University. In 2021, her paintings made their international debut on the set of the NBC sitcom Grand Crew now streaming on HULU. And in 2022 her work appeared on the Oprah Network show, "All Rise", now streaming on Amazon. Her painting are currently on display at the Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia. 

MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. In 2016, Misty Sol received the Leeway Transformation award for her commitment to socially engaged art.