Bio

Rachelle Agundes was born in Red Bluff, California, earned a BFA from Notre Dame de Namur University in 2000 followed by an MFA from Boston University in 2006. She has been an Artist in Residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited in the California Bay Area, New York, Boston and Milan. She currently lives and works in Davis, California.

Agundes’ creative practice has manifested from an exploration of the process of memory and how it becomes distorted through the steady passage of time. The paintings depict collaged images from her environment, memories, family history, photographs and dreams—which are filtered through studio processes. She uses materials and process-driven motifs to manipulate imagery into further realizations. This results in a juxtaposing, overlapping, or stacking of space and time. The collaging of space and ideas allows time to fluctuate from past, present and future— much like one’s relationship to time in dreams. 

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