Rachel Mello visual artist & arts educator

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Knowing When and The Secret

Tags: Cities and Shadows, silhouette-shadow, Ucross

Knowing When, in front; The Secret, behind (obverse painting)
Oil on hardboard cut to silhouette (painted obverse and reverse)
each piece individually: 20″ h x 30″w

Knowing When, in front; The Secret, behind (obverse painting) installed in Mad Oyster Gallery.

The Secret, in front; Knowing When, behind (reverse side painting)

Knowing When,(obverse and reverse sides)

The Secret, (obverse and reverse sides)

Tags: Cities and Shadows, silhouette-shadow, Ucross

About the Artist

At its heart, my work is about sense of place: how a house is a home, how a group of homes is a neighborhood; what it's like to live and dream in cities. The roofs, windows, antennas, trees and wires weave a story. It's the implied presence, just out of frame; the traces we make and what we can read in the silent details... (Read more)

Rachel Mello lives and works in Somerville, MA, using traditional painting and printmaking techniques to explore the contemporary world.

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