Special Information for the Artist
Sophia Tziva parents were Greek, but she was born in Ohio, USA.
She holds a B.F.A. from Miami University. She also has studied in France, where she spent a year at L’ Ecole Des Beaux Arts, L’Universite d’ Aix-Marseilles. Later she also studied art history at George Washington University, in Washington D.C.
The summer of 1983 she apprenticed with the well known sculptor Reuben Nakian in Connecticut.
Gevas has had seven one-woman shows, and taken part in many group shows.
Her works are included in many private as well as corporate collections in Europe as well as in the U.S., such as Pepsi-Co International in New York.
The themes of Sophia Tziva work are characteristic landscape elements. Her Shell leaves us with the memory of listening to sounds of familiar places. Triton and Nereids come and go on her sea shores. Well known symbols introduce us to metaphysical apparitions of lost logic, and fill us with the sensation of the paradise of Greek mythology. In the study and use of form, space and color, the artist’s works become an interpretation of man’s relationship to a particular
topography.
Since 1985 Gevas has divided her time between her two homelands, Greece and the U.S, searching out her myths and symbols. When she is in the States, she teaches life drawing and art history at Sacred Heart in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Solo exhibitions
1975: Bank One Gallery, Athens, Ohio
1976: Bank One Gallery, Athens, Ohio
1978: Artel Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1982: Gevas Studio, Private Exhibition, Falls Church, Virginia
1983: Bank One Gallery, Athens, Ohio
1983: Plum Tree Gallery, Pilar, New Mexico
1984: Gevas Studio, Private Exhibition, Falls Church, Virginia
1986: Antinor Gallery, Athens, Greece
1986: Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
1986: Themelio Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
