Rebecca Stern Fine Art
About
Rebecca Stern is an artist living and working in Fairfield, CT. She graduated with honors from Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2009. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections including Wiley Rein, Port One Companies, Coterie, and TIAA. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions across the country for over 10 years. Stern uses acrylic, canvas sculpture and sewing to produce her abstract works. Exploring themes of cyclicality, movement of the mind, growth, and change Stern’s work takes the viewer on an energetic journey through fields of color, cavernous folds and flowing brushstrokes.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Sugarlift - NYC
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For a comprehensive list of available works, please contact Rebecca directly.
Using her keen eye for texture, color, and light, Stern layers paint onto the hardened folds, highlighting peaks and deepening shadows, amplifying the canvas’s movement and harmonizing the tableau with rich pigment.
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Painting
Sculpture
Textiles
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Commissions Accepted (more info below)
Artist’s Statement
For contemporary painter Rebecca Stern, each piece is an opportunity to learn, to hone her ability to stay present and deeply engaged—working with, not despite, external forces. Canvas soaked in hardening solution can only be manipulated for so long before the form finds permanence. The sculptural elements of Stern’s recent works are imbued with that sense of urgency, a highly physical contention with a fast-changing medium. They are then pieced and sewn together with other canvases, raw and untouched or recycled from past experiments, and sewn into painting’s familiar rectangular form. Using her keen eye for texture, color, and light, Stern layers paint onto the hardened folds, highlighting peaks and deepening shadows, amplifying the canvas’s movement and harmonizing the tableau with rich pigment. Through color, each piece finds a resolution. Moments of tension, of hard, defined edges meeting softer washes and continuous strokes, are blended towards cohesion.
The meeting of Stern’s two working styles—paint which, for such a consummate painter, is a method of control, and a sculptural technique that throws variability and temporality into the process—is akin to the mind’s movement. Cyclicality has long been a component of Stern’s practice. Paint, brush, and canvas are foundational tools. Yet, through process—through cutting, layering, blending, and sculpting, subtle tweaks and recombinations of the familiar—the mind’s capacity for discovery is unbounded. Even that which was previously rejected, scraps or stalled pieces from years past, may prove useful in revisitation.
The artist shows that the repetitive motions and thoughts that undergird our daily lives, even those born of anxiety or unease, can foster radical growth and personal transformation. A snapshot may show the distance between two distinct styles of painting, indeed, between two selves. Yet, retrospect reveals that such distance is traversed through unyielding dedication to the work and to the process. Iteration breeds new awareness—in art making, as in life.
Commission Process
Size is determined and a quote for the project is given based on size and scope.
A 50% non refundable deposit and signed commission agreement is required to reserve space on my calendar and before any work begins.
I put together a custom color palette based on our conversation and the inspiration painting(s) (if applicable). Once completed I will either mail or send an image of the palette to you so you can see it in the space in which the piece will eventually live. For sculptures I send a mini sculpture that captures the tonal variations of the chosen color(s). I provide one revised palette if the first one isn't quite right!
With the color palette in hand you can decide if there are any colors that you don't want included and what colors should be prominent to best complement the space and your taste.
I begin work on the final painting in the studio and take behind the scenes images and videos so you can see the process as your piece unfolds. Once I think it's completed ! send an image for feedback. At that stage I'm happy to make one round of feasible adjustments and photoshop the artwork into the space as a preview. (Note - if additional rounds of adjustments are requested these will be billed as time spent.
Once the painting has been approved by you. I will assist in arranging for transportation and installation of the piece to your home!
To Note: I'm happy to create works inspired by existing works or renderings, however I will not (nor would it be possible to) copy a piece exactly. When a commission is inspired by an existing work, my goal is to capture the same colors, movement, feel and general composition with the commission OR as discussed with the client/designer.
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