These are paintings of my hand written lists, notations, appointment cards, half-used sheets of stickers/labels, and other accumulated paper detritus. I am interested in the unselfconscious nature of the imagery and the unintentional poetry, and how these collections become forensic evidence of how we exist in the world, exposing foible, banality, repetition, desire, expectation, habituation, ritual, hopefulness and doubt.
Charcoal Pile, styrofoam, joint compound, paint, 11x19x19" each
Peppermint Air Freshener, masonite, paint, 40x24x1/4"
Ear, styrofoam, joint compound,
paint, cotton, 16x8.5x3.5"
bio:
Rachel Hecker was born in Providence, RI. She received a BFA in Sculpture from Moore College of Art, and an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an Associate Professor of painting at the University of Houston School Art.
One-person exhibitions have included venues such as the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, and ArtPace in San Antonio. She has shown in numerous museum exhibitions such as Postmodern Americans: A Selection at the Menil Collection in Houston, and in commercial and university galleries and alternative spaces throughout the United States.
Hecker has received extensive critical attention in newspapers and magazines including: The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art Papers, and ArtReview (published in London). A portfolio of her work was reproduced in Grand Street in 1996.
She received a National Endowment for the Arts Award in painting and is represented in many public and private collections including the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and New Orleans Museums of Art; the General Services Administration, and the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas. Hecker has participated in civic art programs as a design team member for various projects and received the 1999 Artist Award from the American Institute of Architects Houston Chapter for those contributions.
Rachel Hecker is represented in Houston by Texas Gallery.
selected reviews:
Douglas Britt, Houston Chronicle, April 16, 2009
Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, Wednesday, Apr 8 2009
Michalel Bise, fluentcollab.org Issue #119, March 27, 2009
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