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① Artwork:
Backyard Refuse, Rudbeckia and Weeds
In this gouache and watercolor painting, a rudbeckia (an unwanted weed that's also a beautiful flower) grows from the cracks between bricks, reaching for the sun. Highly autobiographical, the artist acutely captures the mundanity of her suburban environment while giving the painting a timeless quality through her use of color and tone.
Like most of the works in this series, the colors and tone in this painting give it a vintage feel, although there are no indicators of the time or place, adding an air of mystery and ambiguity to the work.
Working in traditional mediums such as oil paint, gouache, and chalk pastel, Rachel Gregor creates alluring paintings of young women that straddle the line between pastoral realism and contemporary surrealism. Her figures are often caught in a single moment between the mundane and the melodramatic while suggesting a timeless sense of domesticity.
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③ Artist:
Working in traditional mediums such as oil paint, gouache, and chalk pastel, Rachel Gregor creates alluring paintings of young women that straddle the line between pastoral realism and contemporary surrealism. Her figures seem caught in a single moment between the mundane and the melodramatic—wide-eyed, wistful, and frozen in a state somewhere between boredom and shock. These subjects often find themselves surrounded by mid-century floral patterns and crocheted blankets, suggesting a timeless sense of domesticity. Accompanying her figurative works are landscape scenes and still-life compositions that explore both the extravagant and the quotidian. Images of garden cultivars and native wildflowers regularly populate these and other artwork.
Rachel Gregor was born in 1990 in Minneapolis, MN, and lives in Kansas City, MO. She earned her MFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO (2012).
She has mounted solo exhibitions at Global Jet Capital headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland (2021); The Yard Gallery in New York City, NY (2020); and Subterranean Gallery in Kansas City, MO (2014).
Gregor has exhibited her work in group shows such as The Grand Salon at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2021); Unconquerable Women at Martha’s Contemporary in Austin, TX (2021); Run, Run Quiet at PLUG Projects in Kansas City, MO (2021); Lush at Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City, NY (2021); and Wallflowers: New works by Sarah Bogosh, Grace Chin & Rachel Gregor at Wonder Fair in Lawrence, KS (2017).
Her work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings (2022), The Jealous Curator (2021), Create! Magazine (2021, 2020), and BOOOOOOOM (2018).
In this gouache and watercolor painting, a rudbeckia (an unwanted weed that's also a beautiful flower) grows from the cracks between bricks, reaching for the sun. Highly autobiographical, the artist acutely captures the mundanity of her suburban environment while giving the painting a timeless quality through her use of color and tone.More
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