Rebecca Sira Studio

drawing

  • Temporary collage arrangement of a used tea bag, a strip of weathered bark, torn blue paper, a wood block with small blue paper squares, a burl-like brown form, and a knotted stick, laid out on cardboard.

    temporary collage

    I live in the forest, and I’m always picking up moss, sticks, rocks, lichen, fallen bark. In 2024 I started arranging them into temporary collages – nothing glued, just composition, color, and texture worked out and then disassembled. I’d love to be more accomplished at collage, and this was a way to experiment without committing…

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Encaustic painting of a northern pygmy owl perched on a branch, set against a warm brown ground.

    encaustic fauna

    A series of bird portraits made for the Audubon Society’s Wild Arts Festival (2010) in Portland, using the same encaustic process as the encaustic flora paintings but built differently. Each bird started as a watercolor and colored pencil drawing, something I was enjoying with the product label illustrations I was commissioned to make. The birds…

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  • Abstract painting in deep teal and ochre with a pale luminous form and fine linear marks.

    early abstracts

    Acrylic paintings with charcoal and other drawing mediums, made through the early to mid-2000s as the abstract figurative work gave way to less identifiable compositions built from color, gesture, and mark-making. This smaller-scale work would eventually lead to larger-format abstract expressionist paintings that came later in my practice.

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