Rebecca Sira Studio

Tension

  • Wall projection of Soulful Synthesis by Rebecca Sira, with title and curatorial text displayed beside it, Technology and Humanity Canvas at Kanvas, Dubai

    soulful synthesis

    Four looping digital animations – three walls and the floor – made for Technology and Humanity Canvas, a group show at Kanvas, an immersive new-media gallery in Dubai, put on by my gallery, Vernissage. Eight artists were selected worldwide for the show curated by Marina Alvitr. November 8-12, 2023. Every other installation I’ve built, I…

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  • Grid of nine abstract acrylic paintings digitally enhanced, in a mix of red, teal, orange, and pink palettes with organic shapes and gestural brushwork.

    sensory echoes

    A collection of older acrylic paintings revisited through digital tools – some altered during an early exploration of decentralized platforms for sharing artwork, others reworked using Studio Artist’s procedural filters. The originals stay intact; what changes is contrast, color relationships, and composition, tested to see what digital layering could add to work already finished. Testing…

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  • Spiral installation of pleated black fabric with a fabric-wrapped ladder at center, Cascade AIDS Project

    spi·ral

    Spirals of pleated black fabric wound across the floor around a ladder wrapped floor to top in black cloth, paired with a black-and-white panel of hand-drawn spirals and circles. Spiral was made as a tribute to people living with and lost to HIV/AIDS, and to those who support and educate around the disease – created…

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  • Wax paper flower cascade beside a doorway with three encaustic paintings, See installation entry

    see

    My first installation, made for a group show at the Manor of Art at Milepost 5 in Portland, August 14-23, 2009. Before it became studio space, the building had been a senior care facility left empty for years. Artists were each given a room, bathroom, or hallway to convert. The space was filthy and smelled…

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  • Mixed medium abstract figurative piece, a pale central figure divided by a dark vertical line against a warm fragmented ground (left side) Sepia-toned charcoal drawing, close view of a woman's torso rendered in flowing, hair-like linear marks (right side)

    figurative abstracts

    Late 1990s, early 2000s work in acrylic, conte crayon, and charcoal, drawn directly from the live figure and broken apart through gesture, color, and mark-making until the form holds together by feel rather than likeness. Beginning painting by abstract figurative work led to less identifiable abstract paintings.

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