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Artist Statement:
My artwork explores the
meditative mind and its
relationship to perception. My
approach is interdisciplinary,
working with photography,
painting, digital art media,
video and installation. I am
interested in creating
aesthetic interventions in
public and private spaces to
encourage contemplation and
renewal; as a respite from the
stressors of today and an
opportunity for people to find
within them the place of
peace....
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Artist Exhibitions:
October 2 - Nov. 1, 2008 -
"The Camera As Artist's Tool"
- Addison Woolley Gallery and
Center for Photographic
Inquiry, Portland, Maine...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Urban League, Chicago,
Illinois, USA
University of Chicago
Hospital, Cancer Unit,
Chicago, Illinois, USA...
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Rebekah Younger Biography:
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52
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Buddhist |
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| Education |
Graduate Work |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Color
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| Your Personal Biography |
Rebekah Younger
Born 1955 - New Haven, CT
Rebekah Younger‘s art career has taken many forms since graduating from Beloit College, Beloit, WI in 1976 with a BFA in Art. Rebekah owned a gallery and picture framing business, The Great Frame Up/Younger Gallery in Chicago’s Hyde Park community. There she exhibited her own paintings, drawings and prints along with the work of many emerging artists from 1979 to 1988. Selling her business in 1988 to move to California, she continued to pursue her art through group and solo shows of paintings throughout the San Francisco Bay.
While continuing to paint and draw, Rebekah also expressed her artistic vision through her love of knitting, creating many one of a kind wearable art garments that were sold through galleries, like Obiko in San Francisco. In her pursuit of a unique voice in the art to wear field, she developed her own techniques for dyeing knits, which were written about, in an article for Threads magazine in 1995. In 1988, Rebekah formed her business, Younger Knits, which is still her main source of income today. Her work is carried by galleries nationwide and has been featured in museum shows of art to wear at the Fuller Craft Museum in MA and San Francisco Museum of Art – Legion of Honor. Rebekah also sells her clothing at some of the finest retail craft shows on the East Coast, including the Smithsonian Craft Show, Crafts at the Castle in Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and American Craft Council shows.
Rebekah was never formally trained as a photographer, yet has used the camera as a tool of her art from the beginning. Her early work would entail photographic reference shots for her realistic paintings. This later grew into incorporating her photographs, in the form of color Xeroxes, into her mixed media paintings of the early 90’s. Even while her focus was centered on building her knit business, Rebekah was heavily involved in art directing the fashion shoots necessary for jurying her work into shows. This led to photographs of her designs being featured on the cover of several craft magazines, including Ornament magazine in 1999.
But it was not until Rebekah had heart bypass surgery, in February 2006, that she took up the camera, as her art expression in it’s own right. Recovering from surgery and seeking to find a less physically demanding media, Rebekah was drawn to photographing the floral bouquets left by well-wishers. Capturing the light, color and ephemeral nature of the flowers helped her to recover her sense of connection to the world, even as she documented her world in it’s most fleeting of forms.
Today, Rebekah is working on a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College with a focus in photography, while maintaining her business, Younger Knits. She lives on two acres of beautiful country in Woolwich, ME with her artist/furniture maker/engineer husband, Guy Marsden and cat, Maxx.
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