Rebekah Andrade is a contemporary abstract artist working and living in Nevada. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a Graphic Design Certificate from Parsons School of Design in New York City. Currently, she teaches drawing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Rebekah's work explores the language of painting by way of expressionism, geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, and pattern. Her process draws from past work, personal references, familiar forms, objects, textures, and symbols. This structured methodology is transmitted through selected colors of layered paint, collage, and mixed media techniques, always leaving traces of the process visible. Her intention with the work is to investigate and work through questions surrounding the history of representation, limits of perception, aesthetics, status, and reproduction of images, thus providing her insight and clarity into our contemporary visual culture and communicational trends.
Education
2012
BFA Visual Arts, Emily Car University of Art and Design, Canada
2021
Graphic Design Certificate, Parsons School of Design, NY, USA
Instructor
2022 - Present
First Year Drawing, UNLV Art Department, Las Vegas Nevada, USA
Awards
2018
Ada Slaight Gift Grant, OCAD University, Toronto, CAN
Residencies / Collaborations
2019
2017-18
2011
Summer Residency, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
Drawing Assistant for Michael Landy, Demonstration, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, CAN
Richard Jackson, Studio Work, Bob Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, CAN
Exhibitions
Solo / Two Person
2021
Reflection on Form, East Las Vegas Library Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2020
Reflection on Form, Sahara West Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
Arranged Structures, Priscilla Fowler, Las Vegas, USA
2019
2017
2016
Constructed Thoughts, Gallery 1515, Vancouver, CAN
Layers, Borowicz Gallery, Montecarmelo, La Casa de la Ciudadanía, Santiago, CHL
El Color En Movimento, Espacio 1305, Santiago, CHL
Group
2023
Diversified III, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA - Upcoming
2020
2019
Summer, Priscilla Fowler, Las Vegas, USA
Collective Estivale, Youn Gallery, Montreal, CAN
Youn Gallery, Papier Art Fair, Montreal, CAN
Locals Only, R.Cline Arts, Las Vegas, USA
2018
Summer School, The Assembly Gallery, Hamilton, CAN
Salon VI, Patel Gallery, Toronto, CAN
Get Noticed, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, CAN
Painters Make Better Lovers, Northern Contemporary, Toronto, CAN
2017
Group Show, Sussex Contemporary, Ottawa, CAN
Auctions
2018
Art with Heart, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CAN