Rebecca Brewer (born 1983) is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist. Brewer works in painting, textiles and printmaking.
The work of Rebecca Brewer is an investigation into painterly abstraction drawing from visual histories of feminism, occultism, and alternative medicine. She works primarily in oil on canvas and also produces large-scale, two-sided felted wool compositions, typically hung suspended from the ceiling. Her felted works, in their scale and composition reference the histories of tapestry and heraldry.
Early life
Brewer was born in
Tokyo,
Japan
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In 2007, Brewer graduated from
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, where she received her
Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Background
The Bachelor ...
. In 2012, Brewer received her Masters of Fine Art at
Bard College in upstate
New York
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Solo exhibitions
* ''Nine Paintings of Ayn Rand'', Exercise Gallery, Vancouver (2012)
* ''The Written Face,''
Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2014)
* ''Rebecca Brewer'', Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2016)
Awards
Brewer was the recipient of the 13th annual
RBC Canadian Painting Competition, a $25,000 CAD award. The title of the winning work by Brewer was 'Beuys painting', Oil on panel, 42 x 47 inches (2010).
Published works
Contributor to ''Art Cities of the Future'' by Reid Shier, London: Phaidon Press, 2013
References
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1983 births
Living people
Artists from Tokyo
Bard College alumni