Artist Statement:
Rebekah Andrade is a contemporary abstract artist working and living in Nevada. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a Graphic Design Certificate from Parsons School of Design in New York City. Currently, she teaches drawing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Rebekah's work explores the language of painting by way of expressionism, geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, and pattern. Her process draws from past work, personal references, familiar forms, objects, textures, and symbols. This structured methodology is transmitted through selected colors of layered paint, collage, and mixed media techniques, always leaving traces of the process visible. Her intention with the work is to investigate and work through questions surrounding the history of representation, limits of perception, aesthetics, status, and reproduction of images, thus providing her insight and clarity into our contemporary visual culture and communicational trends.
Education:
2020- Graphic Design Certificate, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
2012-Bachelor of Fine Arts and Visual Arts, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, CAN
Awards & Distinctions:
2019 - LA Summer Residency, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
2018 - Art with Heart, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CAN
2018 - Ada Slaight Gift Grant, OCAD University, Toronto, CAN
Professional/Teaching Experience:
2022- Present - UNLV Art Department - First year drawing.
Exhibitions:
2023
- Diversified III, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA - Upcoming
2021
- Reflection on Form, East Las Vegas Library Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2020
- Reflection on Form, Sahara West Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
- Summer, Priscilla Fowler, Las Vegas, USA
2019
- Arranged Structures, Priscilla Fowler, Las Vegas, USA
- Constructed Thoughts, Gallery 1515, Vancouver, CAN
- Layers, Borowicz Gallery, Montecarmelo, La Casa de la CiudadanÃa, Santiago, CHL
- Collective Estivale, Youn Gallery, Montreal, CAN
- Youn Gallery, Papier Art Fair, Montreal, CAN
- Locals Only, R.Cline Arts, Las Vegas, USA
2018
- Summer School, The Assembly Gallery, Hamilton, CAN
- Salon VI, Patel Gallery, Toronto, CAN
- Get Noticed, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, CAN
- Painters Make Better Lovers, Northern Contemporary, Toronto, CAN
2017
- El Color En Movimento, Espacio 1305, Santiago, CHL
- Group Show, Sussex Contemporary, Ottawa, CAN
Artist Tags:
contemporary, abstract, conceptual, geometric, form, shape
