Rachel Mosler

Sunday Morning

2012-01-29T07:15:00.000-08:00

9x12 Gouache, Acrylic

We Dream in the Daytime Too

2012-01-19T09:27:00.000-08:00

I was recently featured in a group show, We Dream in the Daytime Too, Descry Arts Projects @ Photobooth SF, San Francisco, CA Curated by Chelsea Rae Klein, Descry Art Projects and Gregory Bartlett, The Spare Room ProjectOpening: Jan. 13, 2012.

New Work

2012-01-17T09:27:00.001-08:00

"Through my practice I have observed patients' visions and dreams, vintage photographs serve as symbols to make visible what I house inside. The genograms depict abstract imagery of memory, loss, desire, death, and numerous spirits that have passed through my consciousness. I seek to express the breathe of days gone by, I seek to
clarify the unseen."

Genogram 1, 9x12, Gouache, Graphite on Panel

Genogram 2, 9x12, Gouache, Graphite on Panel

Genogram 3, 9x12, Gouache, Graphite on Panel

Inspiration

2011-12-16T05:24:00.001-08:00

I just returned from a dreamy trip to Hudson, NY where I found many new inspiration photos from two of my favorite shops, The Whale and Red Chair on Warren. These are a few gems I discovered in the piles of ancient relics, cobalt paint pigments and ornate silver spoons.

Among the Pines on a Frosty Morning

2011-12-04T10:04:00.000-08:00

Paintings in Gold

2011-11-21T12:27:00.001-08:00

Into Ice by the Pressure of its own Tremendous Weight, 9x12, Water Color, Lead, Acrylic, Gold

About-Bio

2011-10-16T21:49:00.000-07:00

The Red Flower, AATA Journal Cover

2011-10-16T21:43:00.000-07:00

About the Cover Volume 26 Number 4 2009 The Red Flower is an ink drawing on paper 11 x 17 by Rachel Mosler MPS ATR an artist and art therapist for ACI a holistic rehabilitation center for adults.

Members Choice Award

2011-10-16T21:42:00.001-07:00

Despite high real estate prices, Park Slope remains heavily populated with local artists, whose diverse talent and creativity continuously shape the freer, non commercial nature of visual art galleries.

Situated on the quiet corner of Sixth Avenue and 10th Street, 440 Gallery is a modest one-room space with stark white walls, yet the pieces occupying it are anything but ordinary. The gallery is run by an eclectic collective of 13 artists, whose works range from painting and photography to sculpture and installation.

The “Small Works Show,” currently on view, features a mixed-media piece crafted by Tom Bovo, a member of the 440 collective. The piece is titled “Texture #1” and consists of layers forming a complex gray pattern with hints of blue.

This subdued piece reflects Bovo’s abstract expressionist and surrealist influences, but diverges from his normally bold photography work, which seeks to explore the disparity between what is seen and what is perceived in an increasingly complex environment.

In contrast to Bovo’s work, Rachel Mosler’s “Nail Book”—an assemblage of found objects—seeks to explore states of decay by using more natural materials. Nails spring out from the two ends of this carefully crafted book and create a jarring discord within the piece. The work garnered the collective’s members’ choice award for the “Small Works Show” this year.Ellen Chuse uses acrylic paint and colored pencil to depict a series of ovular shapes and fluid forms in her piece “Cousins.” The repetition of circles is characteristic of her work, which focuses on the way in which organic forms in nature reflect and echo one another. Her use of vibrant colors also captures the exuberance and liveliness of nature.For Chuse, the process is just as important as the final product. “I work intuitively within the forms and color that engage me at the moment and I am often surprised to discover the work that emerges,” Chuse said. The way in which she approaches her work also gives it a layered texture that provides viewers with a unique experience each time they look at it.This artist-run gallery allows its members the freedom to take risks in their work, giving its shows a token originality and eccentricity.Exhibitions at 440 Gallery are free and open to the public, and with the bulk of its original art selling for $150-$1,000, even those on a tighter budget may find themselves purchasing a piece or two.For those seeking refuge from the overpopulated clusters of art spaces in places like Chelsea, 440 Gallery provides a non intimidating, intimate alternative. The gallery allows visitors to engage on a more personal level both with the works and the artists themselves.

Moonlight is Visible/Solo Show

2011-10-16T21:36:00.000-07:00

"Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken, by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning." -Pablo Neruda- It is Born AHN|VHS presents an exhibition of works on paper by Rachel Mosler. Drawn in watercolor and ink with stunning care and grace, her compositions range from sparse images of oceanic scenes to architecture or botanical forms in various states of growth and decay. Her work is heavily influenced by a "post and beam house" upbringing on Martha's Vineyard, where "my father carved botanical patterns and planted an orchard in her backyard, while my mother stitched and collected feathers alongside roads". Growing up in such an environment offered little access to the forms of entertainment common to others of her generation, so that leisure activities were instead filled with "quiet observations of nature and time", and careful crafting such as stitching and book binding. Her drawings and sculptures are psychological inquiries into the construction and deconstruction of memories from her childhood. Mosler's imagery is never quite literal, and often it is the space between drawn or painted forms that calls our attention. The Artist speaks of the forms in her work as "a safe space for tension to settle and rest." These works display such a penchant for careful process and exude an aura of rhythmic contemplation. Much like a life spent staring at the sea.

Studio Shots

2011-10-16T09:24:00.001-07:00

Drawings and Detailes

2011-10-16T08:55:00.000-07:00

Sculpture

2011-10-16T08:50:00.001-07:00

Wooden Books

2011-10-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

Paintings

2011-10-16T08:07:00.000-07:00

Among the Pines on a Frosty Morning, 24x36

House in Hudson, 9x12

Paradise on Earth, 9x12

An Unusual Noise, 18x24

Wayside Gems, 18x24

An Overseer can tell at once when the Spinning Stops, 18x24

Lifes Work

2011-09-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

SVA has teamed up with the Valetudo Association to present Lifes Work an exhibition of paintings and drawings by 13 alumni of the MPS Art Therapy Department and by clients at the Maison de Santé Saint-Paul, today a women’s psychiatric clinic in Saint-Rémy de Provence, France, which was once home to Vincent Van Gogh. The exhibition is on view at the historic cloister at Saint-Paul through October 18, 2011.

The exhibition opened on September 16, the eve of the Journées de Patrimoine, an annual festival celebrating France’s cultural heritage, with a reception that drew hundreds of visitors to Saint-Paul. In a brief ceremony led by Dr. Jean-Marc Boulon, chief psychiatrist at Saint-Paul, SVA Executive Vice President Anthony Rhodes spoke, in French, of the importance of chance meetings and face-to-face interaction in building relationships.

Van Gogh spent perhaps his most productive year in Saint-Rémy de Provence from 1889-90. After voluntarily committing himself to Saint-Paul de Mausole, the artist was given special permission to set up his easel on the grounds of the hospital and produced over 150 paintings, including Irises and The Starry Night. Today, the Maison de Santé Saint-Paul operates adjacent to the legendary site of Saint-Paul de Mausole and is supported by the Valetudo Association.

“Life’s Work” features some 40 works by clients at Saint-Paul, as well as 26 works on paper by SVA alumni, which were created in the spring of 2011 in a workshop led by BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department faculty member Peter Hristoff. Participating alumni in the exhibition are Sarah Amiel, Jess Benston, Amelia Morgan Camion, Julie Combal, Naomi Cohen, Suzanne Dell’Orto, Yaara Kastiel, Lauren McCarthy, Rachel Mosler, Ryan Norton, Ayde Rayas-Gribben, Susan Walton, and Amanda Zucker.

Design for Mankind, A Dreamy Portrait, 2011

2011-08-22T05:08:00.000-07:00

Thank you Erin for this lovely post of my new series titled The St. Charles Hotel, inspired by a trip to Hudson, NY....you can view it here....

Dream Recordings

2011-04-11T05:36:00.000-07:00

2011-02-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

Booooooom, Design For Mankind, The Beholder

2011-02-06T11:21:00.000-08:00

A series of drawings were posted on Booooooom, Design for Mankind and Little Paper Planes, they can be viewed here. and here. and here.

The Beholder

2011-02-06T11:16:00.000-08:00

Her work can be viewed on the Beholder, a market place for artists.