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EDUCATION
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Joint-Degree B.F.A., Painting and Drawing Oakland and San Francsico, California, 1999-2002
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, California, 1997-1999
EXHIBITIONS
RACHEL DAWSON: RECENT WORKS Oakland, California November-December 2007
RACHEL DAWSON: RECENT WORKS Element Lounge San Francisco, California October 2006
UNCANNY Berkeley, California January 2004
FACE TO FACE California College of Arts and Crafts November, 2002
FACES VI EXHIBITION Special Recognition Period Gallery, 2002
THRESHOLDS Thatcher Gallery University of San Francisco Summer 2002
RESONANCE Thatcher Gallery University of San Francisco Summer 2001
PUBLICATIONS
Mesh, Volume I, Issue III February/March 2004 San Francisco, California |
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I have a strategy to combine unrelated images and colors that are ambiguous in meaning but unexpectedly unified in composition. My paintings simultaneously speak in a representational and abstract way. I like to morph and fragment recognizable images and create puzzling and visionary pictorial arrangements. My collage of real and invented images along with my love of color, form, and space manipulation are not just immediate solutions to problems of image-making, but a way I create a window into the rational and irrational recesses of my mind and imagination. With a sense of confrontation, my paintings show a certain constructed artificiality of representation. Subtle narratives are emerging in my portraits through pictures of personally symbolic images: make-up, locks, diaper pins, and butterflies. Crumpling them up is a personal acknowledgement to stop chasing perfection and to let go of the things I treasure and hoard. |
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| KYLE oil on canvas, 60" x 72" |
| SIĀN oil on canvas, 60" x 72" |
| MIKE oil on canvas, 60" x 72" |
| CJ oil on canvas, 60" x 72" |
| NONA oil on canvas, 60" x 72" |
| ROGUE WAVE oil on canvas, 60" x 72" |
| TORN: a self-portrait oil on canvas, 72" x 60" |
| LYRICISM oil on canvas, 60" x 72" |
| MY FATHER THE WHEELER oil on canvas, 72" x 60" |
| SMOKE BREAK oil on linen, 28" x 60" |
| RED SHOE FETISH oil on linen, 42" x 48" |
| MYSTERIES OF MY MOTHER'S MAKE UP DRAWER oil on canvas, 54" x 72" |
| POKER FACE oil on canvas, 60" x 46" |
| SECRETS AND LIES oil on wood, 60" x 28" |
| PARENTHOOD SOMETIMES HURTS oil on wood, 30" x 54" |
| BUTTERFLY EFFECT oil on wood, 32" x 64" |
| FLYING AWAY oil on canvas, 18" x 30" |
| ANN oil on canvas, 18" x 30" |
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