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

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