Rachel Church

Artist and Educator

Professional Portfolio

Additional work and CV available at www.rachelchurch.com.

Food/Cookbook Related:

hands opening the pie shaped pages bound to a plate with a binder ring. Each page contains 1/6 of the image of a different meal on a plate.
Dinner Unparty: a potluck: March 26, 2021, exquisite corpse inspired artist’s book with inkjet prints, binder rings, and plate, 2021 – view video of Dinner Unparty
Box with a label that reads: kit for showing you care #1. keep refrigerated. use by 02/29/2020. Church Lady Press, 2020
kit for showing you care #1, box, paper, vegetable peeler, bread, cucumber, and mayonnaise, 2020
Open box with instruction card that reads: Spread Mayonnaise on one side of each slice of bread. Peel cucumber (optional) Use peeler to shave cucumber lengthwise into thin ribbons. Place Remaining slice of bread on cucumber ribbons, mayonnaise side down. Give to someone you care about.
interior detail #1 for kit for showing you care #1, box, paper, vegetable peeler, bread, cucumber, and mayonnaise, 2020
box contains paper, vegetable peeler, bread, cucumber, and mayonnaise packet
interior detail #2 for kit for showing you care #1, box, paper, vegetable peeler, bread, cucumber, and mayonnaise, 2020
recpie box, recipe cards, pen, and a sign that reads "White a recipe on a blank card. Leave it in the recipe for for someone to discover, Take a new recipe home."
cook/share, interactive installation with recipe cards, recipe box, and pen, 2019
hands holding out a plate with a open face tomato and cheese sandwich
still image from Tomato & Cheese Sandwich, performance with audio, bread, cheese, mayonnaise, and tomato 2018 – hear audio recording from Tomato & Cheese Sandwich
sculpture of an open face tomato and cheese sandwich made from fabric and glass beads. Thread, needle and extra beads show that the construction is in progress
Mable and Beverly and Liza and Rachel, glass beads, cotton fabric, fiberfill, ceramic plate, and thread, 2018

Cyanotype:

book open to a page with a cyanotype image of an older man and child standing in the doorway of a farmhouse
Churches of Southwestern Piscataquis County, tipped accordion artist’s book with cyanotype, 2021 – view video of Churches of Southwestern Piscataquis County
room filled with projection of cyanotype print of seaweed and plastic trash. Paper orb sculptures and translucent fabric hangs from the ceiling.
photo documentation from Filtering the Cyan(otype) Sea, collaboration with Melissa Bardsley, installation with projection, sound, sculpture, and paper, 2020 – view video of Filtering the Cyan(otype) Sea installation
cyanotype print of seaweed and plastic trash
untitled cyanotype, created for the 2019 edition of Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability, 2019 – view full article and images: “Cyanotype Impressions of the Atlantic Ocean in Maine”
00-page accordion artist’s book with cyanotype dip at the bottom sitting in a cardboard try full of water in a gallery
100-Year Flood, installed 100-page accordion artist’s book with cyanotype, slipcase, water, and cardboard box tray, 2017
Blue book cover reads The Blue Book, A history of cyanotype and the Book by Rachel E. Church. Spine shows exposed decorative stitching
The Blue Book, artist’s book with cyanotype, 2017
pull out cyanotype image from The Blue Book that shows the artist gathering seaweed on a beach
interior detail of The Blue Book, artist’s book with cyanotype, 2017

Other Printmaking and Book Arts:

a framed screenprint of layers of red and blue text reminiscent of an American flag design with a red acrylic sheet hanging in front
Seeing Red #2, screen print, red plexiglass, edition of three, 2020
 
Seeing Red #2 is an iteration of Seeing Red (next image), updated in a larger format to allow gallery viewing  and with additional text including tweets from the 45th President of the United States.
a small print with layers of red and blue text reminiscent of an American flag design and paper secret decoder glasses stamped with text that reads: Church Lady Press
Seeing Red, laser print with decoder glasses, edition of 50, 2020
 
Seeing Red consists of layers of red text printed one on top of another, quotes taken from various news sources from anti-maskers, folks who are anti-BLM (Black Lives Matter), against immigration, and National Rifle Association supporters. But, when you look a little deeper, using the red decoder glasses, you can see what lies underneath it all: “America: Where my right to do whatever I want, however I want, whenever I want is more important than your right to live.”
accordion book with text and line illustrations, and laser cut blocks that the illustrations were printed from
Dwelley Pond Chanterelles, artist’s book with laser-cut block prints, 2018
open page of the book show a photograph of an abandoned stone room with the window cut out and a plastic chair and shelf painted on
Île Saint-Honorat, carousel book with inkjet prints and slipcase, 2017
cover of the lucky leaf. with a paper belly band and leave shaped piece of paper with the title printed on
cover of the lucky leaf., thread box artist’s book with letterpress, 2016
an artist book made of layers of folded paper boxes glue to each other
interior of the lucky leaf., thread box artist’s book with letterpress, 2016
three fabric orbs printed with a clementine peel texture
set of three clemintines, relief printed orange peel on cotton fabric, thread, polyester stuffing, 2015