Rachel Strum

Incorporating various mediums into her multidisciplinary practice, Dallas-based artist Rachel Strum constructs layered images that open portals for viewers to reconsider the constructs of time and space. Using acrylic paint, aerosol paint, and poured resin, among other mediums, Strum creates depth within an abstract space on the canvas, exploring how light, color, and materiality collaborate to shape our visual world.

Luminous colors, enmeshed by patterning and stratified glittering surfaces, oscillate between flat planes of geometric shapes and deep spatial expanses. In her own words, “The concept of a multiverse is really appealing and comforting to me; I like the idea of infinity, with all possibilities existing simultaneously, on and on, again and again, in a never-ending cycle.” Blending her constructed plains of measured geometric shapes and organic forms with bright, electrifying colors, Strum’s work prompts us to consider the beautiful contradictions in the universe that surrounds us.

Strum's work has been showcased across the country in exhibitions in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, among other cities. Raised in New York City, she currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.