Education
She studied at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California), Parsons The New School for Design (New York City), and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) in 1985.
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Rebecca Morales
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She worked as a field biology illustrator and as a paper conservator. She lives and works in Los Los Angeles Art and "Morales"s drawings are of botanical subjects -- plants, grasses, lichens, mosses, molds, fungi, sometimes with flowerlike spores sprouting -- surmounting fragmented images of long twisted braids of air or strange knitted objects," wrote Gary Garrels in the exhibition catalogue: Fifteen Los Angeles Artists.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2007.
He continues, "The botanical subjects are field sames and photographs from the forests of Califonira, the Pacific Northwest, Vermont and Maine." Other materials are found and collected by the artist. ( add Kansas Review) "There"s also an odd, photographic quality to Morales" mesmerizing works, which combine watercolor gouache, ppastel and ink in ways that make light look liquid, sensuous, stirring.
Think mid-19th century daguerreotypes, which seem to capture the souls of sitters via science and its newfangled technologies." Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2009.
