source: klowdenmann

(b. Huntington, New York)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Rebecca Ripple’s practice is focused around sculptural installations that use highly worked material, often at large scale, to invoke both visceral and intellectual response.
Holly Meyers has written of Ripple’s work, “In each of her sprawling yet meticulous works, one feels Ripple prodding and plying received truths in search of contradiction and paradox, sorting what is allowed from what is prohibited and playing the two against each other. Each piece sits on some viscerally uncomfortable line—between the secular and the spiritual, the intellectual and the emotive, constraint and movement, idea and sensation, language and materiality—pinning the viewer in a state of intellectual and sensorial conflict.”
Ripple received her M.F.A from Yale University in 1995, and has exhibited throughout the United States and in Italy, including shows at Klowden Mann, Kristi Engle Gallery and the Brewery Project in Los Angeles, the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, Upfor Gallery and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Ludwig Drum Factory in Chicago, and many others. Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, and reviewed in Artillery, Art Ltd., LA Weekly, ArtScene, Chicago Tribune and American Craft. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has received multiple awards including a C.O.L.A. City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship and a Nathan O. Freedman Endowment for Exceptional Creative Accomplishments Award. She teaches at California State University,