About
Rebecca Darlington is a visual artist living and working in New York City. She creates Abstract Paintings with lace. The lace becomes a historic symbol for neighborly perpetuation. She and her husband moved to NYC 10 years ago after raising 5 sons in the Hudson Valley.
For 25 years she lived on the side of a mountain. Her only neighbors were acres of trees, herds of deer and spectacular seasons of color. The impression of that time and the link she formed with earth elements has left a permanent imprint in her vision encyclopedia.
Using narrative patterns of figures and fauna Rebecca plays with lace, plexiglass, oil sticks and collage, including 3D elements, saturated color and any means of mixed media to create a sense of joy. The world is teaming with expansive energy.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make abstract paintings using lace as a structural metaphor. My work looks like floating particles of light that shower the subject of the painting. Growing up, moving frequently from foreign county to another, I longed to belong to one place.
rebecca darlington
VISUAL ARTIST
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1979 BFA, Graphic Design University of Georgia, Athens, GA
REPRESENTATION
2023- present Curina.co Online Gallery
2019-25 SaatchiArt.com Online Gallery
2018-20 DavidsonPivotGallery.com Chelsea, New York, NY, virtually on 1stdibs.com
2012-15 Gallery 66 NY Cold Spring, NY
2001-08 Painter’s Tavern Cornwall on Hudson, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Open Studio VCCA Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, FR
2018 Commercial Workspace The Commons, New York, NY
2018 Figurative Landscapes ArtBar Gallery, Kingston, NY
2015 Color Compass Gallery 66 NY, Cold Spring, NY
2015 Color Blast 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall on Hudson, NY
2014 Layers Upon Layers Gallery 66 NY, Cold Spring, NY
2014 The Love Factory 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall on Hudson, NY
2014 Attitude Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY
2013 Birthing Beauty Gallery 66 NY, Cold Spring, NY
2012 iScroll The Studios at 75 Broadway, Newburgh, NY
2008 Made in France CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2007 Evolution Art 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall on Hudson, NY
2006 Chasing Rainbows Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall on Hudson, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Gifted, New York, NY Connie Lee Curated Exhibitions
2022 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Knockdown Center
2022 The Other Art Fair, Chicago Fulton Market
2021 Art Gallery 118 Chasing the Bluebird, Online Exhibition
2021 Upstream Gallery PaperWorks Show, Hastings-on-Husdon, NY
2021 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Brooklyn Expo Center
2021 The Other Art Fair, Dallas Dallas Market Hall
2020 2020 National Prize Show Cambridge Art Association, Juror, Sharon Butler
Schultz Gallery/University Place Gallery, Cambridge MA
2019 EAST Open Studios Big Medium, Austin, TX
2019 Fall Exhibition 2019 LIC Arts Open, The Raw Gallery at The Factory, LIC, NY
2017 Mixed Company ArtBar Gallery, Kingston, NY
2017 Open Studios CAMAC Artist Residency, Marnay-sur-Seine, FR
2015 The Farm Project 2015 Install, 10th Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
2015 The Art of Healing Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
2015 Encaustic and Collage ArtBar Gallery, Kingston, NY
2014 Winter Showcase Skylight Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Small Works 2D/3D Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2013 Human Form Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2008 Illuminations SUNY Orange Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, NY
2008 Madness, Light & Dark The Art Upstairs, Phoenicia, NY
2008 Artist of the Catskills Michael Nelson Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2008 Hopscotch A.S.K., Kingston, NY, Curated by Steven Evans of DIA
2007 Members Show Woodstock Artist Assoc. & Museum, Woodstock, NY
COMMISSIONS
2018-19 Play as a Team, Mobile Skylight Installation
Bonnaroo Works Fund, Arts at the Airport
Nashville International Airport, Concourse B, Nashville, TN
EDUCATION
1979 BFA, Graphic Design University of Georgia, Athens, GA
AWARDS
2019 Fellowship Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VCCA, Moulin à Nef, FR
2018 Fellowship Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VCCA, Amherst, VA
2017 Fellowship Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2017 Fellowship CAMAC, Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre, Champagne, FR
2014 Scholarship New York Studio School Sculpture Marathon
2008 Fellowship CAMAC, Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre, Champagne, FR
2008 Travel Grant SOS, NYFA
PRESS
2019 Co-Working Spaces FORBES Online Magazine, Published September 6, 2019, [ills.]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminwolff/2019/09/06/is-co-working-the-future-of-art/
2018 The Living Form Coda Work Magazine, virtual [ills.]
‘amalgam of wildly inventive fantasia’
8/14/2017 Kingston Times