rebecca gilbert:
untitled105@hotmail.com
www.rebeccaprint.com

Process, craft, concept, and expression are all of equal importance in Rebecca’s new work. This exhibition of multiples is comprised of two parts; warm fuzzies - soft objects, made with silk and paper and three-dimensional drypoint etchings printed using alternative media such as cast plaster and glue. Rebecca’s warm fuzzies refer to honesty, openness, and being kind even if it makes one a little more vulnerable. The drypoints speak to dire compulsion to achieve, to be a good person, to try again and again to express personal feelings that cannot be summed up in one statement. Working in a multiple format allows for the work to leave the realm of a simple edition and acts as a point of utility expressing repetition in life and overwhelming thoughts.

“What I love most about printmaking is that it is founded on process, and in that process there is a great deal of room for experimentation, variation, and integrating media other than just ink and paper,” says Rebecca. Informed by book arts, a construction aspect has not only come to play in her work, but has become an integral part of her process. Repetition and attention to detail appeal to the obsessive part of her nature and her tendency to worry.

Rebecca Gilbert earned her MFA in Printmaking / Book Arts from The University of the Arts in 2002 and her BFA in Printmaking from Marshall University in 2000. Rebecca teaches Printmaking at The University of the Arts, Drexel University, and Main Line Art Center and has shown her work regionally and nationally. In 2003 Rebecca was an artist in residence at Jentel in Banner, Wyoming.

Selected shows:
2005 From the Studio 2: Selections from the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA

2003. Animal Images; Real or Imaginary, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

2002 Projet Mobilivre, Traveling book show sponsored by Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
15th Annual National Works on Paper Exhibition, Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Six Degrees in Cold Storage CAA MFA Exhibition, 315 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA

2001 Art for the Walls of President Corzo’s Office, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2000 Allied Artists of West Virginia, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV , Annual Student Juried Exhibition*, (first and third place printmaking, third place photography), Birke Art Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

1998 Annual Student Juried Exhibition*, Birke Art Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

1997 Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Birke Art Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

Group Exhibitions
2006 Bound / Unbound, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Matched Pairs, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibit II, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA

2005 One Night Stand, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
A Show of Hands (Invitational), Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Discontent II, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA

2004 Discontent I, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA
Inliquid Benefit v.5.0, National Products Building, Philadelphia, PA
Wish You Were Here III, A.I.R. Gallery, NY, NY
DCAD Continuing Education Faculty Exhibit, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
Annual Student Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2003 Hard Pressed, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Robert F.Looney Annual Print Auction, Free Library of Philadelphia, PA
Art for the Cash Poor Sponsored by Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA
Secret Postcards, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2002 Wearable Art and Handmade Crafts, Grass Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
Postcards From All Over, Irving Art Association Center for the Arts, Irving, TX
One-Hour Book Invitational, Mezzanine Book Arts Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2001 evidence., Printed Image Gallery, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Hot Off the Press: An Emerging Curator Looks at Emerging Artists, Creative Artist’s Network, Philadelphia, PA
A Night at the Opera, 1850 Hope, Philadelphia, PA
MFA I Works in Progress, Communications Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Honors and Awards
2004 Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts

2003 Jentel Artist Residency One-month Artist Residency with stipend, Banner, WY

2002 Elizabeth C. Robert Prize for Graduate Study in MFA Book Arts/Printmaking, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Work-study Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, NC

2002 Fellowship, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA