Rebecca Silus was born in Minneapolis and received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2008. She has shown her work at the Katherine Nash Gallery and the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis and the Duluth Art Institute. Her work has been collected both locally and nationally, most recently by TRIA Orthopedic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota and Microsoft Corporation. Her work has been featured in Open Studios Press’s 2004 New American Paintings, Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal and Toward a Livable City, a Milkweed Editions publication. She is currently working in Berlin.
"I am interested in what it means to feel a ‘sense of place’ and how that sense is constructed from the landscape. One way a sense of place develops is through individual and cultural experiences of nature. Automobiles and buildings – icons of the urban streetscape – play an integral role in the contemporary definition and experience of nature and consequently of place. They serve as link, extension and stand-in for the experience of nature and have become an important way to construct a sense of place. In my newest work I have chosen to work with the edges of the commercial landscape – parking lots, streets and train yards – by depicting transitory times of the day when natural light and electric light co-exist." |
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