Rachel Beach
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Rachel
Beach
Artist's Statement
My work uses a combination of sculptural form and painted image to create a shifting visual experience, destabilizing perception and causing us to question how we see and what we believe.
My recent work is based around two main themes: Towers — vertical structures relating to skylines, monuments, pillars, totems, forests, markers, gate posts, etc., and Portals — border forms enclosing negative cut-out space relating to the idea of the edge, seam, framing, transition between one thing and another thing, inside/outside, this world and other worlds.
In both cases, an idea of what is concrete, physical, structural and real mixes with the more illusive ideas of belief, perception, mystery and the search for meaning and value.
Bio/Resume
MFA Yale 2001
BFA NSCAD 1998
b. London Canada 1975
Selected Shows:
Out of the chaos and darkness, LES Printshop, NY 2010
Unnaming of Parts, Blackston, NY 2009
X, Mixed Greens, NY 2009
Towers & Portals, Like The Spice, Brooklyn 2009 (solo)
Exporting Pop: A Western Fantasy, Kuwait Art Project with Dean Projects, Dubai, UAE, 2009
History Repeating, Blackston, NY 2008 (solo)
Rabbit Hole, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL 2008 (solo)
Have You Seen the Horizon, Leo Kesting, NY 2008
Selected Bibliography:
Pulimood, Steve. “Rachel Beach Paints the Rainbow in Brooklyn,” Interview Magazine (March 24, 2009).
Ruble, Casey. “Rachel Beach: Bespoke,” Art in America, (October 2008), p.184-5; illus.
Vartanian, Hrag. “Flip: Rachel Beach and Nora Herting,” Brooklyn Rail, (April 2008), p.51; illus.
Awards:
EAF Socrates Sculpture Park 2010
LES Printshop Residency 2009
Canada Council for the Arts 2009, 2002
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