Rebecca Farr
Working in oil painting and mixed media on canvas, paper, and wood, Rebecca Farr focuses on questions of migration and its resulting displacements. Specifically, Farr examines the cultural mythology of white/Western privilege that informs the hegemonic Western relationship to immense, “unoccupied” space (space often occupied by an “other”), and that space’s ideological and physical colonization. Typically, the artist does not represent a specific historical narrative, but rather approaches the mythic and archetypal experience of the body in vast expanses of land, the fragile relationship of land to identity, and the power and vulnerability of disassociation with homeland. One series explores the historical legacies of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in America, and the activation of those legacies in our contemporary historical moment. Other series have considered micro-migrations of daily life in Los Angeles and Tokyo, and the mythology and daily experience of the Puritans. Farr describes her work as exploring "the far-reaching imprint of history on the present moment," and "the complicated romance between history and embodiment."
Farr has had a solo exhibition at the Washington Center For the Performing Arts in Olympia and her work has been included in group exhibitions at Seattle Center and the UNESCO International Art …
Working in oil painting and mixed media on canvas, paper, and wood, Rebecca Farr focuses on questions of migration and its resulting displacements. Specifically, Farr examines the cultural mythology of white/Western privilege that informs the hegemonic Western relationship to immense, “unoccupied” space (space often occupied by an “other”), and that space’s ideological and physical colonization. Typically, the artist does not represent a specific historical narrative, but rather approaches the mythic and archetypal experience of the body in vast expanses of land, the fragile relationship of land to identity, and the power and vulnerability of disassociation with homeland. One series explores the historical legacies of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in America, and the activation of those legacies in our contemporary historical moment. Other series have considered micro-migrations of daily life in Los Angeles and Tokyo, and the mythology and daily experience of the Puritans. Farr describes her work as exploring "the far-reaching imprint of history on the present moment," and "the complicated romance between history and embodiment."
Farr has had a solo exhibition at the Washington Center For the Performing Arts in Olympia and her work has been included in group exhibitions at Seattle Center and the UNESCO International Art Exhibition in Istanbul.
Courtesy of Klowden Mann
