Rebecca’s paintings rise from the concept of body through philosophical, and historical (mis) understandings. Paint glides between intuitive free mark making and classical impressionism in works that freshly express color line and texture. Her conversation of embodiment and the abstraction of meaning are at times a gritty wrestling match of thick paint and at others, light strokes in search of beauty. Mythic and religious motifs populate her queer feminist sorting the historic drama of figure and the natural world. Her paintings record her exploration of collective and the personal splits, reunions and integrations of physical presence and consciousness. 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:
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:
2024 David Zwirner’s Platform www.platformart.com, Virtual
Resonantly Me, A Queer Artist Invitational, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield CA
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
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
2019
Ellen Caldwell, Riot Material , May
“Into the Mythic with Rebecca Farr’s Animal Love Thyself”,
VoyageLA, January 14.
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
Caldwell, Ellen, New American Paintings, November
“Rebecca Farr’s “Out of Nothing” is Everything,”
Nazish Chunara, Venison, August
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”