Spotlight Artist

Rachel Simon Marino

Pacific Coast
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Artist Statement

Shocking displays of what appears to be a moment just unfolded, the curtains still swaying, wet footsteps tracked out of a room mere seconds before this moment you have been invited to witness in the technicolor magic of Marino’s dizzying, ever-in-motion, large-scale oil paintings. Each piece starts out with the potential for a happy ending but gets caught in tumult and skewed along the way into something mysterious and shrouded as all of the chaotic, yet playful elements of each painting pile on top one another. There is too much evidence to ignore, sinister and noirish, something lurks behind every corner, enticing with the implications that you’re better off not knowing what lies in wait but you just can’t help but look.

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Education

  • BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US

Solo Exhibitions

  • Running On Air, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
  • Foul Play, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY, US
  • What A Treat, Hit Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US

Residencies

  • City Limit, Recology AIR, San Francisco, CA, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Interiors, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
  • Chitty Figures, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
  • 5x5x5, Marin MOCA, San Rafael, CA, US
  • The Superfluity of Things, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, US
  • A Pattern Of Window Frames, Et Al. Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
  • The de Young Open, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, US
  • The Interior, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY, US

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