Rachel Hellmann, Hole in the Sky, 2016
Acrylic on poplar wood
22 x 19 x 3 in.

Rachel Hellmann is a multi-disciplinary artist who is known for her ongoing series of meticulously-crafted geometric sculptures and paintings. Her works fuse the mediums of painting and sculpture and seemingly defy the movement of the solid and heavy wooden medium with their carefully coordinated use of light, shadow, and dimension. Working both three-dimensionally and on paper, the resulting forms explore the way in which the viewer's perception is disoriented by the distorted sense of gravity caused by the careful interplay of geometry, light, and color.

Rachel Hellmann lives and works in Terre Haute, Indiana. She has been a professor of art at multiple institutions and has been a visiting artist at many colleges including MassArt, Boston, MA; Dartmouth College, and Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Her work has been exhibited at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA; University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, ME; Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA; and Elmhurst Museum of Art. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, IN. Hellmann has been the recipient of the Blanche E. Colman Award for Painting, the Constantin Alajalov Award, and was awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in Forest Park, IL, Platte Clove Preserve, Catskills, NY, and Playa in Eastern Oregon. Her work is included in a number of collections, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Camterra Corporation, Fidelity, McMaster-Carr, and the University of Maine Museum of Art.