The Studio, oil on canvas, 16"x20", 2011Jordan Sokol was born in 1979 in Queens, New York. He began his artistic training at age fourteen when he was accepted into the Palm Beach County High School for the Arts. After graduating he enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute and in 2003 began classical training at the Florence Academy of Art, where he is currently a principal painting instructor.
Jordan’s drawings and paintings have been exhibited internationally and are in private collections throughout Europe and the U.S. In the January 2011 issue of American Artist Magazine he is named as one of eleven artists to watch in 2011.
“His interiors and still lifes are bathed in unified light that, when combined with the detailed and personal subject matter, gives them a deeply lived-in feeling. His portraits are also quiet, unified works, often tinged with a touch of melancholy. Sokol’s paintings are the work of an artist comfortable with his craft who is trying to reveal a little of the beauty and mystery of the world around him.”
-Austin R. Williams, an associate editor of American Artist.
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