Rachael Zur 'Persephone's End Table'
Drawer 5- Persephone’s End Table Memento Mori Water color on paper 15” [h] x 11” 2020
Artist Statement
There is a residue of lives lived embedded in the rooms that we move through and in the objects that artists make. My work depicts ordinary objects from living rooms belonging to people I have loved and lost. However it is not grief that I am interested in conveying, but the residue of the affection that is left behind. I blend sculptural physicality with traditional painting techniques to make my hybrid paintings. I use assortment of materials to paint on: plaster, pumice, ceramics, resin, and fabric. Texture becomes a way of communicating touch—my own touch held in my work, and what my viewer imagines feeling with their own hand. In this way, my touch is held in my work similar to how a room or object holds the essence of a person when they are no longer present.
Artist Bio
Rachael Zur is an emerging artist who has shown her work at Young Space, Aqua Art Fair Miami, with Gallery 26Twenty in Missouri, in John Natsoulas Gallery and Pence Gallery in Davis California, in southern California, Chicago, and numerous galleries in Portland Oregon. Zur is currently the Interim Chair of the artist collective Gallery 114 in Portland Oregon, where she has exhibited, given artist talks, and served as a moderator on multiple panel discussions. She is also a member of WAVE Collective in Portland Oregon. Zur received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Creative Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. Zur lives in the greater Portland metropolitan area with her husband and their three children.
Drawer 5- Persephone’s End Table Memento Mori Water color on paper 15” [h] x 11” 2020
Artist Statement
There is a residue of lives lived embedded in the rooms that we move through and in the objects that artists make. My work depicts ordinary objects from living rooms belonging to people I have loved and lost. However it is not grief that I am interested in conveying, but the residue of the affection that is left behind. I blend sculptural physicality with traditional painting techniques to make my hybrid paintings. I use assortment of materials to paint on: plaster, pumice, ceramics, resin, and fabric. Texture becomes a way of communicating touch—my own touch held in my work, and what my viewer imagines feeling with their own hand. In this way, my touch is held in my work similar to how a room or object holds the essence of a person when they are no longer present.
Artist Bio
Rachael Zur is an emerging artist who has shown her work at Young Space, Aqua Art Fair Miami, with Gallery 26Twenty in Missouri, in John Natsoulas Gallery and Pence Gallery in Davis California, in southern California, Chicago, and numerous galleries in Portland Oregon. Zur is currently the Interim Chair of the artist collective Gallery 114 in Portland Oregon, where she has exhibited, given artist talks, and served as a moderator on multiple panel discussions. She is also a member of WAVE Collective in Portland Oregon. Zur received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Creative Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. Zur lives in the greater Portland metropolitan area with her husband and their three children.
Drawer 5- Persephone’s End Table Memento Mori Water color on paper 15” [h] x 11” 2020
Artist Statement
There is a residue of lives lived embedded in the rooms that we move through and in the objects that artists make. My work depicts ordinary objects from living rooms belonging to people I have loved and lost. However it is not grief that I am interested in conveying, but the residue of the affection that is left behind. I blend sculptural physicality with traditional painting techniques to make my hybrid paintings. I use assortment of materials to paint on: plaster, pumice, ceramics, resin, and fabric. Texture becomes a way of communicating touch—my own touch held in my work, and what my viewer imagines feeling with their own hand. In this way, my touch is held in my work similar to how a room or object holds the essence of a person when they are no longer present.
Artist Bio
Rachael Zur is an emerging artist who has shown her work at Young Space, Aqua Art Fair Miami, with Gallery 26Twenty in Missouri, in John Natsoulas Gallery and Pence Gallery in Davis California, in southern California, Chicago, and numerous galleries in Portland Oregon. Zur is currently the Interim Chair of the artist collective Gallery 114 in Portland Oregon, where she has exhibited, given artist talks, and served as a moderator on multiple panel discussions. She is also a member of WAVE Collective in Portland Oregon. Zur received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Creative Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. Zur lives in the greater Portland metropolitan area with her husband and their three children.