Manufacturer’s Village Collective of Artist Studios, 356 Glenwood Avenue, East Orange, NJ 07017
About
About My Work
About My Work
About My Work
My paintings are a collaboration between intuition, and curiosity turned inward. I paint to give voice to emotions that elude identification and live beneath consciousness–and to evoke those complex emotions in the viewer.
I create abstract works and dreamy landscapes that reflect liminal spaces, or thresholds—transitional spaces between states of consciousness, phases in life, mindsets, or even physical places. They communicate growth and transformation through layers, depth, texture, and movement.
Properties of the Earth’s topography, nature, and the energetic vibrations of our internal and external worlds are incorporated into my work. There is often a sense of solitude.
Alcohol ink and pigment sticks enable me to be primal, messy, and gestural when I paint, often using my bare hands. The organic lines, curves, and colors of the ink evolve as go, providing a blueprint that guides me to the finished piece.
About Me
About My Work
About My Work
Rachel Arturi Pruzan is an abstract artist whose studio is based in Manufacturers Village, a New Jersey based collective of artists. Her first solo exhibition took place last September at Valley Arts in Orange, NJ. Recently, her work, “Shinrin-Yoku”, or “Forest Bathing”, was selected for publication in Wild Roof Journal, an arts and literary journal.
She is ever curious and constantly exploring, discovering techniques, meaning, and themes that emerge in her art. She loves to work without restraint, and is not afraid to fail—a trait she consistently witnessed in her mother, also a painter.
In previous lives, she expressed her creativity through her roles as curator of multidisciplinary salons for women, clinical social worker, and writer. These experiences influence the way she sees the world, and naturally, her artistic expression.