Apparition by Rebecca Kaufman

REBECCA KAUFMAN
"Apparition"
Acrylic on Canvas (On Panel)
36 x 36 Inches
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Rebecca Kaufman’s work is a material exploration of intangible visual phenomena. Employing color relationships and the illusion of control she constructs disrupted optical field compositions in painting, textiles, and printmaking. Unlike the pristine surfaces of first-generation Op Artists of the 1960s, Kaufman’s works are imbued with undulations, bleeds, and disturbances. Referencing the Op Art movement, early computer optical illusions, and familiar textile patterns, she labors in the wake of centuries of women’s work - all relegated as trivial by art critics in the past. As much about the seen as the unseen, her work seeks to make real what always was just outside our learned field of vision.

Rebecca Kaufman is a San Francisco Bay Area visual artist working in painting, textiles, and printmaking. She earned an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, where she was the recipient of a 2015-2017 Graduate Fellowship Award and a 2016 Cadogan Award from the San Francisco Foundation, and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee. Kaufman was featured in the Pacific Coast Issue No. 133 of New American Paintings and has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco and the Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland. She has been invited to participate in several residencies including the Valorizzazioni Culturali Workshop/Residency in Venice, Italy, Kala Art Institute Printmaking Residency in Berkeley, CA, and the Meta Open Arts Residency in Fremont, CA. In 2023 she won the Sheridan Prize for Art in the Women Artists category. Rebecca lives and works in West Oakland.