Rachel ENGLISH
Available Works
For more available works please contact lauren@fortworksart.com
Biography
Through concentration on the skies—celestial, stormy, and strange—Rachel English’s work embodies a perennial urge to gaze upward and grapple with ideas of existential meaning. A lifelong fascination with the fields of astronomy and physics sustains her painting technique, involving layers of oil color and brushwork to describe cosmic forms on canvas. Hand-painted stars, bolts of lightning, and cloudscapes are rendered with meticulous detail to evoke connections between the physical laws of nature and transcendent themes like morality and suffering, and to extend a mindful appreciation toward a universe that is much greater than ourselves.
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Education
2010 - 2014 - The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 - Form and Void : 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 - Acatalepsy : Black Lagoon Gallery, Austin, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 - Unique by Nature : McKinney Purchase Prize Juried Show, Mckinney, TX
2019 - Solo Show[Down] : Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
- Hot & Sweaty : 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
- Unique by Nature : McKinney Purchase Prize Juried Show, McKinney, TX
- Texas Vignette : The Women’s Museum at Fair Park, Dallas, TX
2018 - 100 for 100 : Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX
- New Texas Talent XXV : Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
- Texas Vignette : The Women’s Museum at Fair Park, Dallas, TX
2017 - Six in Seven : Austin City Hall, Austin, TX
2015 - Austin Way Magazine Art of the City : The Belmont, Austin, TX
2014 - UT Visual Arts Center partnership with W. Hotel : W. Hotel, Austin, TX
Representation / Partnerships
2020 - Liz Lidgett Gallery, Des Moines, IA
- The Slate Properties, Dallas, TX
2018 - Eggleston Goetze Art Advisory, Memphis, TN
2017 - Schoolhouse Art Studio : Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co., Portland, OR
Residencies / Studios
2020 - The Cedars Union, Dallas, TX
2017 - Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland
- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Press / Publications
2018 - Voyage Dallas, The Thought-Provokers; Celebrating Artists & Creatives
2016 - Austin Monthly, June 2016 Issue
Rachel English
Oil on Linen
40” x 60”
2024