Rachel Strum

Rachel Strum is a contemporary artist from New York who currently resides in sunny Los Angeles, California. In 2007, she graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. While her earlier works were heavily grounded through the mediums of installation and sculpture, Rachel is currently revisiting painting as her medium of choice along with photography.

"My work gives form to fleeting curiosity and subliminal observations of our sociocultural connections to nature and beyond. I am fascinated with the raw & the cooked as a theme and it is often reflected through my exploration of the tension and spatial abyss that resides between the inner and the outer aspects of everything. I find content by using the method of adding and subtracting layers through perforating bold hits of color and patterns found from precious stones and gems. Working with multiple mediums ranging from acrylic, spray paint, and photography allows me to build layered scenes painted with luminous color, swaying back and forth between figurative and abstract. My work moves through that of gradient shifting cosmic terrain and portals to worlds of vivid landscapes and ultimately explores nature vs culture."