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Rachel Beach’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions and galleries in the United States and Canada including, most recently, Blackston, NY, the Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK; Postmasters, New York, NY; Lennon Weinberg, New York, NY; Mixed Greens, New York, NY; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and MSVU Art Gallery in Canada.
She is a recent recipient of a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Residency (2013-14), a Pollack-Krasner Grant, a Yaddo Artist Residency, a Canada Council for the Arts grant, an Artist Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop and Socrates Sculpture Park grant.

She received her MFA from Yale University in 2001 and BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1998.

Beach’s work has been written about in The New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail among other publications.

She was born in London, Canada and lives in New York.
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source: artsynet

BIOGRAPHY
Rachel Beach’s carved wood and aluminum sculptures combine architectural tradition with Minimalist influences. Beach’s practice derives from an original interest in reworking painting stretchers into sculptural configurations. She begins her process with quick sketches, then creates maquettes and scaled drawings before beginning to shape her objects. Her finished projects, three-dimensional abstractions, reveal the influence of Donald Judd and Frank Stella, whose “simple forms that convey an idea” she finds particularly inspiring. Beach also creates drawings and screenprints that reference Native American religious symbols, Japanese color woodcuts, and the language of architectural draughtsmanship.