Using alcohol ink, oil paint, cold wax, and fire, I create abstract paintings and dreamy landscapes that communicate and evoke emotion. I often employ aspects of chiaroscuro, using the quality and color of light to create mood and leave emotional imprints.
My art is born from intuition and curiosity, and gives voice to subconscious emotions that elude identification. I explore growth, transformation, and dualities of the human condition through my work. And I am using art to process and document my felt experience of womanhood.
Elements of the Earth’s topography, geology, and other aspect of the natural world are also evident in many of my paintings. There is often a sense of solitude.
My work is filled with layers of texture and movement. This creates depth, and the artistic equivalent of “palimpsest”— a word describing something that’s altered, but still bears traces of its original form.
I enjoy working with media that can be reworked, reactivated, and moved over and over again. Lines, curves, and colors evolve as I work, and provide a blueprint that guides me to the finished piece. My process is a beautiful collaboration between medium and artist, and a dialogue between randomness and control.
I am primal, messy, and gestural when I paint, and I frequently eschew brushes for my bare hands.
I am an abstract painter based in Manufacturers Village, a New Jersey based collective of artists. I’m wildly curious and constantly discovering techniques, meaning, and themes in my art. I love to work without restraint, and I‘m not afraid to fail.
In previous lives, I’ve held roles as a creator of multidisciplinary salons for women, and as a clinical social worker. These experiences influence the way I see the world, and naturally, my artistic expression.
I‘m especially interested in studying contemporary art within its cultural context, and its relationship with other disciplines. I will forever be amazed by—and reverential to—the relationship between art and viewer.
My first solo exhibition took place in September, 2021 at Valley Arts in Orange, NJ. Recently, my work, “Shinrin-Yoku”, or “Forest Bathing”, was published in Wild Roof Journal, an arts and literary journal. I show my work regularly in exhibitions throughout the the New York City area and beyond.
“This is How I Remember It”
SMALL WORKS SHOW
at Powell Lane Arts
Collingswood, NJ
November 25-December 23 2022
Thrilled to have three works in this group exhibition!
View my available pieces in their lovely gallery space,
or visit their online shop here and find my name in the ARTIST filter.
West Orange, NJ
This is a group exhibition that runs concurrently with the theater’s production of Richard II. View available original art by Rachel and thr...
West Orange, NJ
365 Glenwood Ave, East Orange, NJ
Come visit me in my studio! Original paintings and limited edition archival pigment prints will be available.
This is the first (and likely o...
365 Glenwood Ave, East Orange, NJ
Mass.
Harvard Business Publishing is a non-profit wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University.
On View:
”To Live From a Place of Emotion”
”To Find ...
Mass.
1180 Raymond Blvd, Newark, NJ
Group Exhibiton
ARTfront Galleries is a non-profit based in Newark, NJ, that works to reactivate communities by turning formerly empty spaces...
1180 Raymond Blvd, Newark, NJ
22 E 69th St, NYC
”Be Still” is a pop-up gallery and curatorial project featuring artists located to the left of NYC, in NYC spaces.
On view: “The Forest for t...
22 E 69th St, NYC
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