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Revision as of 03:48, 13 December 2015
Rebecca Jo Morales (born 1962) in Torrance, California is an American artist. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA), Parsons The New School for Design (New York City), and earned a BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) in 1985.[1] She worked as a field biology illustrator and as a paper conservator.[2] She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Career and Practice
(description)
"There's also an odd, photographic quality to Morales' mesmerizing works, which combine watercolor gouache, ppastel and ink in ways that make light look liquid, sensuous, stirring. Think mid-19th century daguerreotypes, which seem to capture the souls of sitters via science and its newfangled technologies." Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2009
Selected Public Collections
The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) are among the public collections holding works by Rebecca Morales.[3]
Roadrunner from 1996 in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is painted in gouache and watercolor on vellum. It illustrates the artist's almost photographic painting technique as well as her sculptural use of velum. Morales' non-objective paintings can be best described as "fantastically crafted abstractions that get your imagination going in so many directions that you start to wonder why they are neither maddening nor frustrating but strangely serene in their own offbeat sensitive way." [4]
"Chimera", the Anderson Collection, May 2009. "At times, rendered so precisely that they are easily mistaken for collage elements, these images lend a hand-made, domestic quality to Morales's hyper-precise paintings, one that reinforces her interest in bringing otherwise separate worlds together," writes Karen Rapp for the Anderson Collection, 2009.
References
- Carotinuto, Gianna, “Rebecca Morales” in Art Issues, Summer 2001
- Los Angeles Times, Catch the Eye Catch the Brain, February 13, 2009
Footnotes
- ^ The artist's website
- ^ McGregor, Jennifer, Tending Toward the Untamed, Wave Hill, Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY, 2012
- ^ The artist's website
- ^ http://assets-p.artcat.com/file_uploads/file_asset/asset/31cebe9b1863f228adf16e3cd2e0b53bc96dc3da/b3ccb9b3631671d9fecd263cf1444e94.pdf