Jozie Furchgott Sourdiffe’s work embodies a fascination with anatomy and the juxtaposition of human culture to the natural world. She has always been interested in the power of art as a voice and vehicle of social change, much of it influenced through her outlook on the world as a queer femme. Recently her work has focused on the complexity of illness and disease and the cycle of life and death, a subject that is ordinarily avoided in contemporary western dialogue. This current body of work features large paintings with gold altar piece panels heavily influenced by Renaissance era religious art and relics. Although Jozie’s work is not religious, she is drawn to how death and the physical form of human suffering is portrayed.

Jozie was born in Lincoln, Vermont in 1986. She works in various mediums but predominantly in printmaking, painting, and handmade Artists Books. She received her BFA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA in 2008. Jozie has had her work exhibited in various solo and group shows including being a featured artist in this years’s “Any Day: Artist’s On Death” at the Gage Art Academy in Seattle, Washington.