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Rachel Popowcer:
Artist Statement
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My
paintings function as textural snapshots; individual
entities that capture specific moments or ideas
and yet still relate to each other by the nature
of the markmaking, color, and spatial relationships
between the forms. They speak about transition,
but a transition that hasnāt been very consistent
in its progression or strength. It has been,
at alternate times, gradual and painful and
lovely and overwhelming. Nothing has been expected,
and yet everything has been welcomed.
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Each
piece reflects a wavelength in my mental monitor,
that I attempt to decipher with the same intensity
that I watched the monitor at my daughter's birth.
These
visual strands(wavelengths) weave together to form
the fabric of my particular process, or progress,
through this transitional space.ŹAnd though they're
generally non-representational, I intend that people
identify with them out of the memories or moments
that the colors and marks recollect. That personal
identification is part of what iām so drawn to about
painting. It gives me an opportunity to connect with
people, some of whom i never meet, but all with whom
i've shared some common experience.
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Biography
Born
in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in 1970, Rachel Popowcer
has lived in Albuquerque since 1996, when she moved
here to get her Master's of Fine Arts Degree in Painting
from UNM. She received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts
Degree in Painting and Drawing from Carnegie-Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was also
certified as a K-12 art instructor before going to
graduate school. She has exhibited her work extensively,
both locally and nationally, and has participated
in artists residencies such as the Vermont Studio
Center. Rachel has been (and is also currently) part-time
faculty at UNM and TVI Community College, teaching
Drawing, Painting, Two-Dimensional Design and Introduction
to Studio Arts. She has also taught for the Harwood
Art Center, Magnifico, and conducts mixed-media painting
workshops in her home studio. Rachel's work can be
viewed (or commissioned) at Mariposa Gallery in Albuquerque,
Box Gallery in Santa Fe, and Robin Ficara Fine Art
in Beverly Hills, CA.
In
a recent review of Rachel's Mariposa Gallery show
Collective in the Albuquerque Journal
(April 24, 2005), the author stated, "Her work
feels familiar and personal while it expands the imagination".
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