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Rachel Dobkin

Artist Statement

Varying in scale and size, these new paintings consider the relationship between communication and cognition, the joy in connecting and experiencing. This work derives from both a conceptual and material based practice, with a specific interest in phenomenology. Some describe phenomenology as the study of things as they are perceived, as opposed to the study of being, the nature of things as they are. Hovering in an ebullient holding pattern, these paintings invite the viewer to play, rebounding between a finite yet open-ended series of queues and patterns.


Curriculum Vitae


EXHIBITIONS

2008
White Hole, MFA thesis exhibition, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

2007
TwoFold, Dorin Gallery, Boston, MA

Works on Paper, Greenstone Gallery, Lincoln, UK

Swap Meet, ISB Gallery, Icebox Gallery, Providence, RI/Philadelphia, PA

Powers of Ten, The Barbershop Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
There’s No Place Like Home, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Group Show, Seed House, Grinnell, IA

Patterns, Gallery 221A, Grinnell, IA (solo)

2005
Prints and Drawings by Rachel Dobkin, Gallery 221A, Grinnell, IA (solo)


BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Kurczynski, Karen. “Reconfigurations: Painting as Drawing” Twofold Online Catalogue

2007
Allison, Maya. “Generalizing Generations” Swap Meet Exhibition Online Catalogue

AWARDS

2008 Recipient of Temple University Rome Arts and Culture Scholarship

2006-8 Tyler School of Art Graduate Assistantship

2005
Grinnell College Ninth Semester Fellowship in Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

2003-4
Grace and Walter Smith Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2001-5
Grinnell College Merit Scholarship, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

PANELS/LECTURES

2007
Inquiries into Empathy, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Artist Talk, There’s No Place Like Home, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008
Research Assistant, Tyler Exhibitions and Public Programming Department, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Curatorial Assistant, Dona Nelson, Fluid Field, Abstraction and Reference, Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA

Teaching Assistant, Critical Dialogues, Professor Karyn Olivier, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Instructor, Illustration and Cartooning, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA

Instructor, Beginning Painting, Continuing Education, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA

2006
Teaching Assistant, Senior Painting Studio, Professor Frank Bramblett, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA

2005
Assistant Preparator, Print and Drawing Study Room, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

Assistant Conservator and Preparator Internship, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2004
Gallery Assistant, Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
Exhibition Installation, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

EDUCATION

2008
MFA, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Elkins Park, PA

2005
BA, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

2002-3
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL