So excited to have Rachel Ahava Rosenfeld on the Produced By a Girl Podcast! She’s BRILLIANT and inspiring. Link to her podcast soon! Please see her biography below and on her website: http://www.rachelahavarosenfeld.com/new-page-1
My name is Rachel Ahava Rosenfeld, and I am a painter working in River North, Chicago. Most often, I can be found in my studio, bent over my palette or facing off with a new canvas. The studio, located in the back of the apartment that I share with my partner, houses my unresolved paintings as well as the shoebox-archive of found snapshot photographs and the treasure-trove of art books that bring my studio practice to life.
Since moving to Chicago in the summer of 2016, I have shown work in museums, pop-up galleries, and group exhibitions in Chicagoland. Several paintings travelled even further, headed for walls as far away as Florida, Ohio, and Missouri.
When occupied at the easel, I work as the Art Specialist on the faculty of the Joseph and Belle Braun Anshe Emet Religious School. In addition, I recently presented my first curatorial project, Third-Shifters: Art that comes alive at night. Research for that exhibition catalog is ongoing.
I am a native of Kansas City, Kansas, where I found my enthusiasm for painting while getting myself hopelessly lost at my mother’s office. Her job in the African Art Department at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art gave me access to miles of maze-like galleries to explore in wonder.
