Rebecca Stern

Works in Stamford, CT

BIO

Rebecca has a MacGyver-like talent when it comes to painting, using a blend of different textures, patterns, colors, and handmade brushes to create her complex landscapes . Her work balances a hyper-intelligent sensitivity with a free flowing and spontaneous expression. If Rebecca’s paintings were school children, they’d be in the gifted and talented program (but then probably be kicked out a week later for using shortcuts to do long division).

Rebecca Stern is an artist living and working in Stamford, CT. She graduated with honors from Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2009. Her work is numerous private collections and she has participated in solo and group exhibitions across the country for the past 10 years. Rebecca uses acrylic paint, collage, thread and drawing materials to produce her abstract work. She considers each piece a "mental landscape" that investigates the complexities of the mind. She is intrigued by the juxtaposition of intentionality and expressive freedom that exists within the materiality of different mediums and the process it takes to find a balance.

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You’ll love Rebecca if: you spill things and are fascinated by the patterns

"I externalize my internal monologue into a visual narrative. In the studio, I am in control.Regardless of what else might be going on in my life or the world, I paint, collage, stitch, andconstruct materials. My aim is to understand the relationship between my existence and theevents that take place around me. I create a “mental landscape” to explore themes of intrinsicmotivation, control, chance, change, and balance. Gestural marks produce a visual depiction ofthought patterns illustrated through repetition, texture, juxtaposition, color and negative space.Manipulating materials in my studio assists me in mitigating the fact that I can’t control whatgoes on in the day to day. I’m on a journey towards accepting what is. It is this fact that bringsme back to the studio again and again."