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Rachel Rickert
(American, born
1990
)
34
.
Veil
2017
Oil on canvas
26
x
26
inches (
66
x
66
cm.)
Image courtesy of the artist
Rachel Rickert is a Brooklyn-based artist whose subject matters, like Bonnard’s, are
figures engaged in everyday routines and domestic rituals. These depictions express
the tension between what is revealed and what is hidden.
Rickert received her MFA from the New York Studio School in
2015
, and her BFA
from Washington University in St. Louis in
2012
. She was the recipient of the
Mercedes Matter/ Ambassador Middendorf Award at the
2017 Alumni Invitational
New York Studio School, selected by Irving Sandler, Robert Storr, and Walter
Robinson. In
2017
she also received the James O’Brian Award for her work in the
60th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: 60 Works Celebrating 60
Years.
Rickert has had two solo shows with E.Tay Gallery, NYC, in June
2016
and
September of
2017
.