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Rachel

Youens

Media:

Painting, Drawing

Rachel

Studio Location:

43-01 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

Room/Studio#

306A

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Artist Bio:

Rachel Youens, B.F.A.,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA  from Brooklyn College, CUNY; awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2005, a  Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008-09, and PSC CUNY Professional Development  Grants in 2008, 2015, and 2019; artist residencies at the Fundación  Valparaiso, Spain and Ragdale Foundation, Il. She has exhibited at 490  Atlantic, Sideshow Gallery, Valentine Gallery, Open Source, and Kuf  Mold, Turkey. She has written art criticism for The Brooklyn Rail’s  artscene section (1999-2005), Two Coats of Paint, artcritical, Cover  Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, and NowChelsea. She currently teaches at  LaGuardia Community College and at the Parsons School of Design.

Artist Statement:

I have long worked with structure, poetry, and ragged nature in my  paintings, where my table is a reality filled with ‘modelli’ related to  the Renaissance method of composing their historical and religious  dramas. My modelli take the forms of vessels, cloth, varieties of  breads, wood, leaves, and metal objects. By piling them, stacking them,  strewing them, and layering them into compositions to paint,  I find they acquire a character.

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