Rachel Frank:
2023 Exhibiting Artist
2023 Artist-in-Residence
Part of my practice centers on “rewilding” —the environmental practice of reintroducing species back to areas where they had formerly thrived to restore ecosystems. The Rewilding Offering Hand centers on the current reestablishment of the oyster beds in the NYC harbors, linking the idea of an offering to the practice of ecological restoration. The oysters are hand-sculpted in clay and glazed to look like eye-like talismans, connecting to the oyster’s status as a keystone species important to water health and coastal protection.
Several of Rachel Frank’s works were included in Re-Imagining Conservation: From the Ground Up, at Swale House on Governors Island, New York in 2023. She was also an artist in residence at Swale House in Summer 2023 as part of the Re-Imagining Conservation exhibition.
Rachel Frank lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, and Franklin Furnace Archive. Her performance pieces have been shown at HERE, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Select Fair, and The Bushwick Starr in NYC, The Marran Theater at Lesley University, Franconia Sculpture Park (MN), and at The Watermill Center in collaboration with Robert Wilson. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include MOCA Tucson (AZ), the SPRING/BREAK Art Show (NYC), Thomas Hunter Projects at Hunter College (NYC), Standard Space (Sharon, CT), and Geary Contemporary (NYC). She works as a licensed wildlife rehabilitator at the Wild Bird Fund in Manhattan.
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Website: www.rachelfrank.com
Social Media: @rachelfrankfrank