Rachel Bers: Conjurer

Rachel Bers

Conjurer

2010
colored vellum on paper

48” x 32”

Rachel Bers: Conjurer

September 8, 2011 - October 7, 2011

Reception for the artist: Thursday, September 8, 6-8 PM

4 4 3 P A S is pleased to announce Conjurer, an exhibition of recent work by Rachel Bers. Using botanical illustrations as a point of departure, Bers creates idiosyncratic biomorphic tableaux out of collaged colored vellum. Fantastical flora and fauna interact according to an intimate logic that suggests a narrative but leaves viewers free to draw their own conclusions.

Equally playful, her soft sculptures are flexible and can be made to hold different positions both on and off the wall. Begun as gestural line drawings, they are transformed into stuffed fabric forms that, like the collages, recall living organisms but exist in a realm that is distinctly their own.

In all of her work, Bers employs a vibrant palette to evoke domestic and biological excess - and possibility.

Bers holds and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Brown University. She has exhibited her work at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Muskat Studios in Boston and the Reanimation Library in Brooklyn. More work can be seen at her website at www.rachelbers.com.

Rachel Bers

Fata Morgana

2010-2011
colored vellum on paper

30” x 22” and 30” x 20”

Rachel Bers

Anteater Fantasy

2011
collaged silkscreened paper

12” x 9 “

Rachel Bers

Darling Seedling

2011
collaged silkscreened paper

12” x 9 “

Rachel Bers

Embodied Drawing 2

2008
vintage fabric, armature wire, wool

Rachel Bers

Embodied Drawing 3 

2008
vintage fabric, armature wire, wool

Rachel Bers

Embodied Drawing 1

2008
vintage fabric, armature wire, wool

Rachel Bers

Encounter 1

2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9"

Rachel Bers

Encounter 2

2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9"

Rachel Bers

Encounter 3

2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9"

Rachel Bers

Encounter 4

2009
collaged pantone paper
13" x 9"

Rachel Bers

Family Portrait

2011
collaged silkscreened paper

12” x 9 “

Rachel Bers

Maroon Embrace

2011
collaged silkscreened paper

12” x 9 “

Rachel Bers

Moondrop

2011
collaged silkscreened paper

12” x 9 “

Rachel Bers

The Incubating Eye

2011
collaged silkscreened paper

12” x 9 “

 

Rachel Bers

Amphibious Creation Myth

2011

colored vellum on wood

48" x 36"