ABOUT THE artist
Artist Biography
Rebecca Volkmann, a painter and mixed media artist, has participated in exhibitions in the US and abroad including Spain and Italy. From 2022 to present, she has exhibited with Artifact Projects, New York in Digital representation in their gallery via the use of monitors, and also at the Art Fairs throughout the USA. In 2024, Rebecca exhibited with Artifact Projects Gallery in the "Continuity: Modern and Contemporary Masters" International Group Exhibition that included the works of Picasso, Matisse, and Miro.
Rebecca has exhibited internationally with Verum Arte in December 2024 in Milan, Italy. Rebecca also has exhibited with Monica Ferrarini, curatrice of MFEventi for four years and this year in Rome in "Magister Artum". Rebecca has shown with the international art collective, Nartwork , also for four year in Milan, Bologna, Naples, and as well in Spain. From 2020-2022 with Vander Plas Gallery in New York and with Mads Art Gallery in Milan, Italy and Fuertaventura, Spain.
Rebecca has also been published in “Lights for the Future”, Corriere dell’Arte Magazine in Turin, Italy, was included in the publication in 2021, “Artists of Today and Tomorrow”, a Contemporary Art Catalogue written by Curatrice, Monica Ferrarini. In 2021, Rebecca won the ”Collector’s Vision”, International Art Award. She also collaborated with Composer, Margin Alexander, in “Nocturnal Tableaux of Soho” where her artwork was displayed and inspired a musical composition performed in New York.
Rebecca has exhibited locally in Arizona with Steinfeld Art Gallery in Tucson, AZ, The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, and the Tubac Center for the Arts in Tubac, AZ. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Statement
My work is inspired by dreams, poetry, relationships, and place as a woman and creator. My personal narrative sometimes depicts the interplay between women and men, but most importantly in my view the strength of these women as unique characters. In most cases, each figure that I depict is created intuitively and from my imagination. My work is based in experimentation and is by nature intuitive. My focus is on careful observation and what comes out in the painting itself through color, layering, and texture. The most difficult risk is to not be afraid to work over the original image, yet show remnants of what once lay beneath.
The theme of many of these new works is passion, distance and closeness, and loss. I have been investigating the intimate, seductive, and raw energy of love and life. There is life in dreams, intuition, and exploration with the painting process.
Throughout this process, I have maintained a love of portraiture whether from life or imagined. While in Arizona the past five years, I have painted portraits of family members from photographic portraits that I have taken of them. However and more, so the intuitive process allows for creation of imagined portraits of strong, female figures.