Bio & CV
Rachel received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. Although her focus was on sculpture and printmaking, secretly, she always wanted to be a painter.
After graduating, Rachel moved to New York City and began a long career in marketing. In 2013, she left her first career and has since focused on developing her practice, participating in group exhibitions and sharing her artwork online.
Rachel and her husband spent a couple of recent years living in Europe and now reside in New England.
- Dual Paintcast with fellow painter, Christopher Long, on YouTube
- Daily Paintworks Spotlight Interview (online)
- Biekert, Mary, "Mystic Museum of Art exhibit highlights life's simplicities", The Day, May 18, 2018 (print and online)
2018 The Contemporary Scene, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Connecticut
2017 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 106th Annual Exhibition, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Connecticut, juried by Emilia Dubicki and Deborah Quinn-Munson
2016 Winter's Eve, Howard Silverman Gallery, East Greenwich Free Library, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, juried by Richard Whitten, artist and Professor of Painting at Rhode Island College
2016 60th Regional Show, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Connecticut, juried by Margot McIlwain Nishimura, Deputy Director Collections, Programming and Public Engagement, Newport Restoration Foundation
2016 Public/Private: The Arc of Longing, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
2016 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 105th Annual Exhibition, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Connecticut, juried by Darby Cardonsky, Assistant Professor of Art at Western Connecticut State University, and Will Lustenader, artist and teacher at Choate Rosemary Hall
2016 Black & White, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Connecticut, juried by Leigh Tarentino, Associate Professor of Visual Art, Brown University
2016 Constellations, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, curated by Stacy Thomas-Vickory, Professor of Printmaking, Montserrat College of Art
2016 Allied Artists of America Painting Award
2016 Alumni Fellowship, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts
2016 Gallery Talk, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
2016 Artist Talk, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts
Montserrat College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2000
Massachusetts College of Art, Undergraduate Studies, 1996-1998