PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM | US | 2019
Rachelle Bussières (San Francisco, CA)
Rachelle Bussières’ work coaxes new colors and luminescence from photographs materials, which we found to be refreshing. Using both sculptural objects and experimentation with light and chemistry in the darkroom, her constructed abstractions are surprising and distinct. Rachelle’s proposal for advancing her work during the residency has been clearly articulated, informed by the rich opportunities that the facilities of Penumbra, New York City and East Coast light will provide. Her skill with the lumen print process will be a welcome contribution to the Penumbra community’s pool of knowledge.
–Alissa Schoenfeld (Director of Yossi Milo Gallery. Member of the 2019 Jury).
Image © Rachelle Bussières. Untitled, Arches, From the series “Strata”, 2015, 20x24inches, gelatin silver print (fragment, click to view full image).
“[…] moving through a collision of materials, documents, and transfiguration of assembled sculptural forms, MY practice seeks to develop an understanding of the limits and possibilities of seeing and knowing by oscillating between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional objects. […]”
Rachelle Bussières (b.1986) received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently a Charter Resident at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. She is the recipient of the Graduate Fellowship Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, California; and the Award for Excellence from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Galerie l’Inlassable (Paris, FR), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Present Company (New York, NY). She was awarded residencies at the Banff Centre in Alberta, the Vermont Studio Center and Sim in Iceland. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
