biography
Rachel DuVall (b. 1985) is a Los Angeles based textile artist making hand-woven wall-hangings. Each piece is built up line by line on her floor looms using linen colored with natural dyes. Her geometric compositions explore the grid structure inherent to weaving, the result of the warp and weft fibers intersecting. By using repetition of line and shape, the work investigates the relationship between the rigid framework required to produce a weaving and the flexible imperfect nature of the resulting material. Within this repetition the subtlest differences become amplified, such as the variation in tension of each hand-woven line, or subtle color shifts achieved with by hand dyed fibers.
Exhibitions
2021 Madder + Marigold , Alison Milne, Toronto, ON Canada 2021 Off the Grid, Lief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Artist Series Vol. II, Foam Corp. , Los Angeles, CA 2019 Intro/LA, The Row, Los Angeles
2018 Material World, Dust to Dust Projects, Portland, OR
2018 Systematic, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 In Focus: Rachel DuVall, The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Squig Alert, Cordesa Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA solo
2016 Modern Arts and Crafts, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Primo Lane, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
2014 The Fabric of Space, Amuse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Residencies
2020 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency Awardee, Bethany, CT
2016 The Vermont Studio Center Resident
2015 Penland School of Crafts Winter Residence Awardee, Penland, NC
Awards
2016 Windgate Fellowship recipient, Vermont Studio Center
Notable press