Rachael Wren

The Shirley Project Space, in collaboration with Rick Wester Fine Art, presents Rachael Wren: Site Lines. Lush and atmospheric, Wren’s paintings are a collection of contemplative abstractions connected to landscape that flicker with energy and depth. Like memories, the sense of place is strong but elusive.

Rachael Wren is a Brooklyn based painter whose atmospheric abstractions have their source in both landscape and memory. Rachael received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the University of Washington. She believes that the dense, ever-present atmosphere of Seattle that she experienced during graduate school seeped into her, and still informs her paintings.

Rachael has had solo shows at Rick Wester Fine Art, Wave Hill, The String Room Gallery at Wells College, The Painting Center, Schema Projects, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Providence College. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the National Academy Museum, Garis & Hahn, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, and Trestle Gallery, among many others.

Rachael is the recipient of the Julius Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy Museum and an Aljira Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at Emerson Landing, Chashama North, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Anderson Center, and the Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.