Rebecca Ward continues to investigate painting’s multifaceted relationships with object, craft, and dimensionality through deconstructed and sewn canvases. Emphasizing materiality and process, a distinct visual language and formal ambiguity permeates the artist’s works. Ward converges cut planes of painted and dyed canvas at machine-sewn seams that both physically combine and divide the compositions along a perpendicular axis. Creating exuberant environments of grassy greens, silky violets, or variegated maroons, foreground and background are accentuated by lighter washes or raw canvas contrasting with saturated tones.
Rebecca Ward (b. 1984, Waco, TX) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA at the University of Texas, Austin, TX and an MFA at the School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY. Selected solo exhibitions include SITE Santa Fe (2022); and FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2015). Public collections include the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.
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