Rebecca Farr’s paintings explore the significance of physicality within psychological, spiritual and historical contexts. Her imagery sources mythic and religious motifs and is populated with symbolic figures that wrestle with the cultural abstractions of embodiment. Her queer feminist sorting of the historic drama of figure and the natural world is both celebratory or satirical.  Farr's paintings are intuitive. Subconscious impulses develop through bold color, line and texture and integrate impressionistic and classical techniques to forge a distinctive language that articulates her study of human desire.  Her application of color emerges from a gut response to her subject matter, resulting in a uniquely constructed palette that resonates organically with each painting.

Farr was raised in the Pacific Northwest, and currently resides in Los Angeles. She has exhibited in Los Angeles at Five Car Garage, Klowden Mann, in Seattle at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, along with presentations at multiple art fairs throughout the United States. From 2015-17 she was a faculty artist in the education department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, overseeing multiple public projects.  Her recent residencies include Kaus Australis in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Les Laboratories Aubervillers in Paris, France and NADA house on Governors Island, New York.

( b 1973), Lives in Los Angeles, California

Education:

1996    Bachelor of Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College

 

Artist Residencies:

2022    Hunting Ground , NADA House, Governors Island, NY

2017     The Ark: Center of Plural Disciplinary Experimentation

             Les Laboratories d’Aubervilliers, Paris, France 

2015     Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2025 Earthly Appetites, Paintings 2015-2025, Ram Gallery, Bakersfield, CA

2024 A Field of Tender Things , Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA

2023 A Feast of Gods and Animals, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles CA

2021   CAVE, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA

2019    Animal Love Thyself, Klowden Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2016    Out of Nothing, Klowden Mann Gallery, Los  Angeles CA

2014   Sweet Broken Now, Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2012    edge, Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2010    RELAY, Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2023 Tryst Art Fair, The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles

In the Middle With You, The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles

2022     Nada House, Governor’s Island New York

This Is My House, Porch Gallery, curated by CuraArt, Ojai CA

2021     Forest and The Sea, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA

Suturo:Artist and Poems, Los Angeles 2021 Virtual Show

2019    Making Light, Serious Topics, Barely Fair, Chicago, IL

EROTIC-VULVIC-PHALLIC, PØST, Los Angeles, California

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Klowden Mann, Santa Monica, CA

 2018   SUPERPOWERSHADOWWOMAN, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA

            Vibrant Matter: Artworks Refiguring Form, Maiden LA, BAB, Inglewood, California

Depart Foundation, Malibu,CA

 2017    Material Performance, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA  

            The Ark procession, Paris France

             BLUE Kamikaze, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016     Elysian Passage- Maiden LA, Elysian Park, Los Angeles CA

2015     Passengers, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

             source amnesia,  Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014     Thanks for the Mammaries, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA

             UNESCO International Art Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

2013     Miami Project, Miami, FL

 

Bibliography

2024

Canvas Rebel, Rebecca Farr

2022

Grace Miles, LUM art, and I live here, Spring

2021

Shana Nys Dambrot,Art and Cake, September

Rebecca Farr: CAVE at Five Car Garage

ArtForum Must See, Los Angeles, September

2020

Aseem Giri, Achieve Podcast, April

“Interview with Rebecca Farr”

2019

Ellen Caldwell, Riot Material , May

“Into the Mythic with Rebecca Farr’s Animal Love Thyself”,

VoyageLA, January 14.

Meet Rebecca Farr

2018

ARTnews

“SuperpowerShadowWoman’ at Give Car Garage,” ARTnews

2017

Gary Brewer, Art and Cake,Los Angeles, December

Studio visit: Rebecca Farr, The spiritual embodiment of empathy

The Daily, University of Washington Press, November

Material Performance: Part II at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery features candy, makeup and physics

LACMA, Unframed, August

http://unframed.lacma.org/2017/08/02/young-wave-power-young-public-work

NOH/WAVE Podcast, March

http://www.artistdecoded.com/podcast/

2016

Nazish Chunara, Venison Magazine, October

Rebecca Farr's "Out of Nothing"

Hagler, Josh, Venison Magazine, December 

How to Give a Shit No 7,"

Caldwell, Ellen, New American Paintings, November

Rebecca Farr’s “Out of Nothing” is Everything,”

Nazish Chunara, Venison, August

"elysian passage"

Emma Gray,

“Out of Nothing Introduction” – Essay Catalog

Claressinka Anderson-Pugliese,

“Out of Nothing” – Poem Catalog

2015

Katherine McMahon, ARTNEWS, July

source amnesia at Klowden Mann

2014

Ellen Caldwell, New American Paintings, October

Rebecca Farr's Sweet Broken Now

Maxwell Williams, Artsy, October

Westward Abstraction: Rebecca Farr's "Sweet Broken Now" at Klowden Mann

Schad, Ed, 

"For Spacious Skies"- Catalog Essay

2013

 LA, I'm Yours, 

Combining influences an interview with Rebecca Farr

2012

Santa Monica Daily Press, Sarah Sptiz, “On the Edge”