Artist Name: Sophia Lee
Title: "Flora Flotsam"
Medium: Cut urban waste (junkmail, paper) with acrylic paint on MDF panel
Dimensions: 10x10 inches
 
Sophia Lee is a San Francisco–based multimedia artist whose work reimagines calligraphy and repurposes urban waste to explore beauty, resilience, and environmental fragility. Drawing inspiration from light, layered landscapes, and natural rhythms, she transforms discarded materials—junk mail, foil, and fragments of glass—into intricate compositions that radiate quiet strength.
 
Each artwork becomes a vessel of transformation—holding energy, memory, and renewal. Through layering and intuitive mark-making, Lee channels the power of reuse, revealing how what’s cast off can be reimagined into something luminous and alive. Her work spans painting, murals, and public installations, including exhibitions at the DeYoung Open (2023) and Let’s Glow SF (2021). In 2025, she reimagined her participatory installation Little Fish at Rhythmix Cultural Works in Alameda, inviting the public to fold origami fish as a collective act of hope and healing.
Lee’s art reminds us that transformation—both personal and environmental—begins with what we choose to see and save.
 
 
Copyright 2025 Sophia Lee