RACHEL YORK
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Rachel York is an artist, writer and educator. Rachel earned her B.A. from Gordon College and her M.F.A in painting from Louisiana State University. She has taught undergraduate art courses at L.S.U and Messiah University and currently teaches as an adjunct professor at Rowan University. Her artwork focuses on the depiction of light, nature and the body, often dealing with the intersection of the spiritual and the material.
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Exhibitions & Publications
2025 *Solo Show, 40 Eyes, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA
2025 Careful Steps, Recent Work By Rachel York, Justin Auspurg, and Brenton Good, Prattville Gallery, Boston, MA
2025 Gordon College Alumni Show, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
2024 Unconventional Still Life Studio Holder’s Exhibition, Waldos and Co, Gettysburg PA
2024 *Two Person Exhibit, Embodied Enchantment Automat Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2024 *Two Person Exhibit, Dwell, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA
2024 The Breath and the Clay, Winston-Salem, NC
2024 Instructor Show, Adams County Art Council, Gettysburg, PA
2023 Beginnings, Rat Gallery, Washington D.C.
2023 *Solo Show, Which Way Lies the Savior, Waldos and Co, Gettysburg, PA
2023 *Solo Show, Above our Heads, Beneath our Feet, Glassell Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2023 Blue Hour, Intersect Art Center, St. Louis, MO
2023 Surreal Salon 15, The Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2022 Conversations, The Barrington Center for the Arts, Wenham, MA
2022 Surreal Salon 14, The Baton Rouge Gallery, Honorable Mention
2022 Layers, Group Exhibition, The Union Gallery, Baton Rouge LA
2021- Sincerious, Pop Up Exhibition, Baton Rouge, LA
2021 Curse of the Ground, The LSU Dairy Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
2021 The Language of Women, Essay Publication, Guernica Magazine
2020 From Every Angle, The Union Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition, The Barrington Center for the Arts, Wenham, MA
2019 Contemplate, A Group Exhibition, City on a Hill, Boston, MA
2018 Mostra, Orvieto, Italy
2017 Meditations, Jenks Gallery, Wenham, MA
2017 "Confessions Chapel," Westmont College, CA (with Bruce Herman and Walter Hansen)
2017 Spring Exhibition, Jenks Gallery, Wenham, MA
2017 Findings, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
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AWARDS & PRESS
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2023—Deans Award Grad Recipient, Department of Art & Design, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
2022—Suhayada Grant Recipient, Department of Art and Design, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
2022—Honorable mention in Surreal Salon 14, Baton Rouge Gallery, LA
2019 Excellence in Studio Art award recipient, Gordon College
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