Bio
Rachel Livedalen’s creative practice explores representations of femininity through the lens of art history and visual culture. She earned her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa and her BA from the University of Virginia. Rachel is currently an Associate Professor at TCU and heads the printmaking area. Her work has been supported by residencies at the Kala Art Institute, Virginia Creative Center for the Arts and A&H Museums-Maitland as well as by the art installation program of the historic Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Her work is held in the collections of the Mulvane Art Museum, the Bradbury Art Museum, Soho House Austin, and UT Southwestern. Rachel is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX and Ivester Contemporary in Austin, TX.
“….Rachel Livedalen elevates the decayed cultural forms of classical female sculpture to ecstatic heights by way of trapper-keeper, hard glittering aesthetic alchemy. A feat of Necromancy by way of Lisa Frank stickers, the synthesis between oppressively standardized forms and what is in essence, an extension of 90’s girl-power design, revives and reassembles the expectations of feminine beauty towards more personable ends. Citations intact, Livedalen’s reproductions of stale, academic imagery prompts a new interpretation to stem from the limiting factor of physical beauty. Here, the white surface of Grecco-Roman artifacts are rendered accessible, even relatable, imagined as a canvas for the expression of a certain kind of bodily understanding, chosen by Livedalen over what is taught in academic circles.” - May G N in exhibition text for “The Topography of Bodily Sentiments” The New Gallery, 2018