Gathering: Meet Rebecca Reeves

Abrams Claghorn Gallery
1251 Solano Ave, Albany, California 94706

Showing July 5 – August 31, 2017
Recption: Saturday July 15, 5 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday August 12, 5 – 7pm

Rebecca Reeves has been a part of our wonderful Venison community since our first year, 2014. When we did a full feature of her work which you can read here. Not only will Rebecca Reeves be exhibiting in Gathering, but she is also our guest curator for the show! We are so excited to have her a part of our wonderful show. Rebecca will be speaking at the Opening Reception of Gathering: A Venison Magazine Retrospective.

Artist Statement

Rebecca Reeves was born, raised and currently resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her system of living becomes the foundation for her work. Reeves’s observations fuel the need to clean and organize in order to gain control over her environment.

In her current body of work, Reeves considers herself, the “Collector, Protector and the Keeper” of numerous family heirlooms. Similar to the meticulously detailed Victorian human hair wreaths which represented the family tree; Reeves uses miniature furniture as representation for the objects in her home, her family tree. She obsessively cocoons the miniatures in thread in order to contain and preserve. Nearly, suffocating them in the process.

Not in the Bay Area?

Rebecca is also showing at the following locations this year!

Stitched Part 2 – Paradigm Gallery, PA
50th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition – Arts Council of Princeton, NJ
Gone But Not Forgotten – Laurel Hill Cemetery, PA
Oddities Flea Market – Brooklyn Bazaar, NY
Mini Art Show – Gristle Art Gallery, NY