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Picturing the Avant-Garde: A Celebration of Alternative and Experimental Processes at the SE Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, FL
April 6, 2021 – June 12, 2021
Picturing the Avant-Garde aims to broaden the interpretation of photographic imagery beyond traditional printing. The 8 artists included in this exhibition explore the conceptual potentiality of various alternative and experimental photographic processes such as gum prints, tin types, chemigrams, cyanotypes, gold orotypes, and lumen prints among others.
Illuminated Love Oracle
I am thrilled to announce that my oracle deck, Illuminated Love Oracle has arrived!! This is the culmination of 6 years of collaborating with Jessica Rose and Jennifer Dawn.
An oracle deck is like a tarot deck in its use but different in that the cards are not set with a specific structure and meaning. Oracle decks are more free flowing and the cards and meanings are different for each deck depending on their maker. The Illuminated Love Oracle has 45 cards, each of which is a unique image I created in the darkroom. The magic of light in its many forms has been my muse for this project.
Scalehouse Voices Presents: Rachel Wolf
I am excited to share this 30 minute artist talk I made while working in my darkroom. The brilliant side to the virtual talk is that I can actually get to show you the magic I get to play with while making images in my darkroom.
Blind Magazine: A Short History of Cameraless Photography
This is a wonderful piece in Blind Magazine by Charlotte Jean, talking about cameraless photography. I am honored to be included in it!
Public Art Acquisition
Seattle City Light has just acquired Cosmic Dance for their public collection!
Off The Cost: Features Rachel Wolf
Thank you to Off The Cost for featuring me!
PenPal Photography
Design Gallery at Pacific NW College of Art
February 2020
Come out for the opening this First Thursday – February 6, 2020 from 6-9pm
This is an exciting show for me! My dear friend Peter Miller, a professor at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, and I wanted to connect our photography students from across the world the way penpals used to connect with letters. This is the 2nd of 2 exhibitions.
At the opening reception we had a live video feed so that the students at the gallery in Germany could talk to us at in Portland at Pacific NW College of Art. The students then choose a piece in the show to react to and sent all the work back to Portland for this exhibition of both the Portland photographers and the German photographers!
Project Rayon:ReConsider at Also Arts Gallery in Troutdale, OR
December 3, 2019 through January 31, 2020
Please join us from 5 -8 pm December 6th for the Opening Reception.
This exhibition is of 8 artists who have worked with objects in unfamiliar ways to create something new and unexpected. Come out and see what we have created!
PenPal Photography Galerie 52, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen Germany
December 2019
This is an exciting show for me! My dear friend Peter Miller, a professor at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, and I wanted to connect our photography students from across the world the way penpals used to connect with letters. This is the 1st of 2 exhibitions.
At the opening reception we had a live video feed so that the students at the gallery in Germany could talk to us at in Portland at Pacific NW College of Art. The students then choose a piece in the show to react to and will send all the work back to Portland for an exhibition of both the Portland photographers and the German photographers.
Light Conversation: Pop -Up Projection series hosted by Small Talk Collective at Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center
6:30 – 10pm, November 22, 2019
Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center
8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR
I have some new work being projected alongside some of my favorite Portland photographers! Come out for an awesome night of great photography.
Caldera Stories of Change, Illumination – A collaboration with Horatio Law
Caldera – Sisters, OR October 2019
Castaway – Portland, OR November 2019
Lightbox Photographic Gallery: Members Summer Showcase
Lightbox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Drive Astoria, Oregon 97130
July 13, 2019 through August 06, 2019
Please join us from 5 -8 pm Saturday July 13th for the
Opening Artists Reception of The Members Summer Showcase.
Hi-Lo Hotel
Hi-Lo Hotel
320 SW Harvey Milk Street, Portland, Oregon 97204
Opening July 11, 2019
Exhibition of new work for the launch of the new restaurant in the lobby of Hi-Lo Hotel in downtown Portland!
CANNON BEACH ARTS AND RENTAL SALES GALLERY COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION
Cannon Beach Gallery and Arts Association
1064 S. Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR 97110
Wednesday, June 19 – Sunday, August 4, 2019
Reception June 22, 6-7:30pm
Exhibit made possible with a grant from the Ford Family Foundation
Oregon Artswatch: The Alchemy of Photography, Sans Camera: Rachel Wolf
David Bates wrote a review of my solo exhibition, Unconditional, at Chehalem Cultural Center, in Newberg, OR
UNCONDITIONAL | BY RACHEL WOLF
Central Gallery
Chehalem Cultural Center
415 E Sheridan St. Newberg, OR
June 4, 2019 – August 3, 2019
Opening reception Friday, June 7 from 5-9pm
Surface / Interrupted : Happy Hour Panel Discussion
Friday, March 15 at 6pm
Please join me in the Hoffman Gallery for a Happy Hour panel discussion on Surface/ Interrupted. Participating artists Morgan Buck, John Whitten and Rachel Wolf will be discussing their work and practice with Curator Sam Hopple and Painting and Drawing Dept. Head Michelle Ross.
Hoffman Gallery at Oregon College of Art and Craft
8245 SW Barnes Rd. Portland, OR
Public Art Acquisition
The Regional Arts Cultural Council (RACC) has just acquired two of my chemigrams for the City of Portland’s Public Art Collection. These two works are from my series Alchemy, which you can see more of on my Alchemy gallery page.
Artist Talk
If you are in Astoria, OR please join me as I discuss my work and thoughts on photography at Lightbox Photographic!
Wednesday, February 6 from 6-8pm
Lightbox Photographic
1045 Marine Dr. Astoria, OR
Transmission by Rachel Wolf
The Joinery
February – April 2019
4804 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR
Extended to March 20, 2019
The Hoffman Gallery at Oregon College of Art and Craft is proud to announce Surface / Interrupted, an exhibition of new work from Morgan Buck, John Whitten and Rachel Wolf, curated by Sam Hopple.
Through the mediums of Drawing, Painting, and Photography, Surface / Interrupted is an exhibition full of poetic optics. The visual disruption, surface tension, and optical illusions present in the artists’ compositions pose the question if what we are viewing is analog or digital. Buck, Whitten and Wolf all use experimental methods of making to produce visual enigmas that challenge the eye’s ability to clearly comprehend what is being seen.
Artist Talk
PACT: Art play in the community
Sunday January 13, 1-3pm
Rose Villa Performing Art Center
13505 SE River Rd. Portland, OR
Join us for a conversation with
Horatio Law & Rachel Wolf
Current Artists in Residence at Rose Villa
Interview
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) interviewed me for their Questions with an Educator Series.
Portland Art Museum
Rental Sales Gallery Fall Show
Opening reception October 26, 2018 5-7 pm
1237 SW 10th Ave. Portland, OR
Unlimited at Page Space
September 2018
Please join me for the Opening Reception of Unlimited on September 6th from 6-9pm.
511 NW Broadway Portland, OR
Artist in Residence
Horatio Law and I have just been selected to be the Artist in Residence at Rose Villa. It would be great to see you at Rose Villa on August 20th, while we talk about our individual practices and our collaborative projects.
Rose Villa Performing Art Center
13505 SE River Rd. Portland, OR
FO(u)RT at 77
Come out on First Thursday for the opening of FO(u)RT Collective at 77.
Thursday, August 2, 2018 from 7 PM – 9 PM
August 2018
1100 NW Glisan St. Ste B2, Portland, OR
Third Room
Come out Friday, July 13th from 7-10pm for the opening of Expanded Cinema at Third Room.
On view for the rest of July.
707 NE Broadway #205 Portland, OR
Workshop
In conjunction with my show at Silverton Diorama, I will be doing a cyanotype workshop at The Silverton Arts Association. We will end the day by making a gigantic cyanotype all together!
Silverton Arts Association
303 Coolidge St., Silverton, OR
Parallel Undertone by Mark Palmen & Rachel Wolf
Curated by MK Guth
July 2018
Opening reception Friday, July 6 from 6-9pm
Silverton Diorama
216 E Main St. Silverton, OR
Installation & Performance
A Tale of Two Ghettos
May 16, 2018 6-8pm
One Night Only, At 2 Simultaneous Locations
This multimedia, cultural and boundary crossing art installation excavates the hidden and layered history of displacement of the Japanese and Chinese communities in Portland’s Old Town. A Tale of Two Ghettos proposes to connect Chinatown with the developing Jade District in East Portland via social media/video conferencing platforms. At two selected locations (the Portland Chinatown Museum in Old Town, and Portland Community College SE Campus’ Community Hall in the Jade District,) simultaneous real time videos of performance, audience and discussion are projected into the spaces in both districts. The musicians in Old Town will be performing to a projected phantom audience, and at the same time, audience in the Jade District will be viewing a ghostly performance projected on multiple translucent scrims. This one-night double public event features musical performance of Chinese and Japanese traditional instruments, drumming and singing, followed by discussion at both sites.
A Tale of Two Ghettos is co-sponsored by PCC SE Campus Multicultural Center in the Jade District, and the Portland Chinatown Museum in Old Town Chinatown. This project is made possible by an artist project grant funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC).
Portland Photography Month
Photographer Speaker Series
April 13, 14 and 20
Portland Community College – Cascade Campus
Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building
705 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217
Auditorium Room 104
Portland Community College – Cascade Art Department is pleased to announce a Photographer Speaker Series in support of Portland Photography Month. All students and community members are welcome to attend.
Featuring nine photographers, who photograph a wide range of subjects and utilize various forms of the medium, will speak about their life path, artistic practice, and thoughts on the state of photography.
Each artist will lecture for 60 minutes and answer questions.
PAINTING WITH LIGHT: INTERVIEW WITH PORTLAND ARTIST RACHEL WOLF
Rachel Wolf: Suspended Resonance
Angst Gallery
1015 Main Street Vancouver, WA
March 2018
First Friday Opening Reception March 2, 5-9pm
Artist talk March 28 at 5pm
Photography Print Annual
My work is featured in the newest edition of Diffusion, Volume IX
Exhibition & Artist Talk
On the Earth looking at the Sky
The artwork of Rachel Wolf (1st floor) and Christine Eagon (2nd floor)
The Esther Building Art Space
610 Esther Street, Vancouver, WA
September – November 2017
On Thursday, October 19 there will be an artist talk from 6-8pm
Transmutation by Rachel Wolf
West Linn Public Library
August 2017
1595 Burns Street
West Linn, OR 97068
About
Rachel Wolf is a professional photographer who specializes in camera-less photography, alternative/ antique processes, and creates immersive environments through light-based installations.
