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Join Curator Mike Calway-Fagen, and Education Consultant, Josiah Golson, in the Studio with Rachel Lebo Friday, July 24th at 5 PM EST. Rachel will be a participating artist in the exhibition Living Room which will run in our 2021 exhibition season. Mike, Josiah, and Rachel will be continuing their conversation about how their work reinforces and/or breaks down the themes explored in the exhibition.
About Rachel:
Rachel Lebo grew up on the east coast in Baltimore County, Maryland. She currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri working across media in painting, sculpture, and story-telling. She likes to step into other characters in order to explore ideas and herself. In 2019 Rachel received her MFA in visual arts from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the recipient of The Ernestine Betsberg and Arthur Osver Scholarship, a Dubinsky Scholarship to study at the Fine Arts Work Center, The Graduate School Production Grant,and The Graduate Student Travel Grant. She has been featured in All the Art magazine, and has shown in Richmond, Baltimore, and around the St. Louis area. Rachel currently enjoys teaching at Maryville University and works as a wedding DJ on the weekends.
www.rachellebo.com
ABOUT LIVING ROOM
Living Room The group exhibition I've invited you to participate in, Living Room, runs from April 16-June 13, 2021. Here is a preliminary, introductory text for the exhibition: It is said human existence requires five things: food, air, water, sleep, and shelter. Of these five things four seem inarguable; essential things that are not just in-addition-to-bodies, they are bodies, they sustain bodies. But the fifth, Shelter, seemingly lies outside the person. But does it? Shelter in its most culturally ubiquitous form materializes as house. Houses are often represented in shorthand, in things like diagrams and tables, by simple shapes. The triangle atop a square is easily recognizable and functions as a symbolic catchall. But past the symbol’s monochromatic surface what is there? Dwellings are not so easily compartmentalized, and often what constitutes home has less to do with the physical structure and its constituent parts and more to do with what’s on the inside. Or more specifically, what goes on in the inside. So, if the outside is largely inert, the insides kick and scream, and grieve, and love, and laugh, and leave. They are continuous, in life, and well afterwards. They are Living Rooms.
A multifaceted and many-media(ed) exhibition, Living Room brings together artists from across the United States to explore it all; the living room, living in rooms, the tangible and many intangible ways that rooms live.