Rachel LaBine
Bio: Rachel LaBine is an artist working in painting, installation, and performance. She was born in North Dakota, where at age 3 she began plotting her escape, and practicing ballet. As a teenager she watched the movie Fargo and, unable to hear the accent, missed the joke. Her work tends to invoke an elsewhere, animated by holding scale, legibility, and longing in a slippery grip. In 2010 she received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She moved to Brooklyn the day after graduation, and to Los Angeles a few years after that. Currently she intends to stay in New York for a while.
Thesis Exhibition
L to R: By Turns Diffuse & Binding (Solo exhibition at Fourteen30 Contemporary in Portland, 2019); Taut stem, blithe spirit (10" × 8", Oil on wood panel, 2019); By Turns Diffuse & Binding (Glass stain),(Dimensions vary depending on sun, Lighting gels, tape, vinyl, 2019)