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Rebecca Rutstein
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Manju Schandler
Rebecca Rutstein’s work expands upon her long and deeply held interests in geology, microbiology, marine science, and the undercurrents that continually shape and reshape our world. She creates R/V Falkor & R/V layered networks where scale Atlantis series is shifted and obscured, artic2016 - 2018 ulating fractal patterns found Acrylic on canvas in nature. Incorporating data and maps, juxtapositions often coexist in her paintings and installations: micro and macro, expressive and restrained, graphic and atmospheric, organic and geometric, handmade and mechanized, linear and solid.
Oil Spill 1 2012 Polyester film, vinyl, paper
Manju Schandler is a visual storyteller creating narrative imagery imbued with elastic meaning. Her mixed media artworks are a meditation on current events presented as a psychological landscape that build upon established storylines in pursuit of ordering madness. Her work is often focused on humankind’s pursuit of fuel. These pieces are part of an exploration of the ocean as our planet’s life blood: marine plants provide the greatest source of the earth’s oxygen. While the oceans are generous they are not infinite.
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