Rebecca Rich

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

My work confronts limitations and negation, dismantling the hierarchies of color, material, and subject. Painting on linen and allowing it to be seen, I honor every element, the substrate, edges, textures—allowing all parts to have a voice. I embrace the use of neon, metallics, and texture. At its core, my practice is rooted in feminisms—centered on choice, agency, and the right to exist freely, visibly, and safely. These paintings live between dimensions, They reflect an intuitive understanding that change is constant, independent of our influence. Identity is similarly fluid, and my work mirrors the complexity of the self and psyche. Rather than seeking balance, I lean into the tension between opposing forces. Each piece is a physical and metaphorical palimpsest—layered, fragmented, and suggestive of memory. The work becomes a path, guiding the viewer toward seeing not just with intellect, but with intuition. Skeins, scaffolds, veils, and layers both obscure and reveal, echoing the complexity embedded in every surface. Metallics conceal and illuminate in equal measure—shifting with light and the viewer’s movement, functioning like sculptural sundials whose meanings unfold over time. The work depicts my own feminist language of abstraction challenging a center fixed view and also a hierarchy of color and space. The sensory movement and expansion within a compressed space opens up to new spaces revealed. A shaky center never becomes a center, so it pushes to the edge and...

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