Rachel Higgins
Rachel Higgins (born c. 1981) is a visual artist based in New York, known for her paintings and drawings of vernacular urban and suburban landscapes. She is a 1999 graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts where she was honored as the Outstanding Visual Arts Senior of her graduating class. She went on to major in studio art on a National Merit Scholarship at Birmingham-Southern College, completing her B.F.A. with high honors in 2003. Among her awards there were the Raymond J. MacMahon Award for "Superior Accomplishment in Overall Academic Achievement and Studio Art." In 2002 she attended the Glasgow School of Art on a junior year abroad program.
Higgins has volunteered since 1996 with the Magic City Art Connection's Children's Imagination Festival, serving as artist and event coordinator since 2005. That same year she won First Place Best in Show at ArtWalk. Her work has been exhibited at Gallery 2306, Space One Eleven, Bare Hands Gallery, the Open Art Gallery in Cahaba Heights, and the Newberry Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland.
Higgins has worked coordinating other art events, such as the Blue Hole Art Festival in Hayden, has taught art at the Hilltop Montessori School, as a visiting artist at Birmingham-Southern, as a lecturer at ASFA, and as a teaching artist at Space One Eleven. She was also the supervising artist for the Woodlawn Ecoscape mural project.
Her recent series "Collected", consists of fragmentary landscape elements painted onto muslin tightly stretched over found objects like toasters and freezer doors.
In December 2008, Higgins organized a revolving art exhibition of approximately 20 artists' work at a space in the nearly vacant Century Plaza mall entitled "Everything Must Go".
References
- Underwood, Madison (December 25, 2008) "Consume this! Exhibition at Century Plaza reinvents the mall as art space." Birmingham Weekly.
External links
- Rachel Higgins website