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- Category: Art in Progress
- Category: Art Series Statements
- Category: Art Shows
- 'Perfected Communion' is a perfect night November 10th, 2008
- Action, Unification: A Lenten Journey March 7th, 2009
- Artist Statement for Patterns in Flight August 9th, 2010
- Arts Council commissions butterfly paintings September 1st, 2010
- Butterflies take flight: Butterfly art series opening July 26th, 2010
- Butterfly paintings to be public art at Indianapolis Arts Council new offices May 19th, 2010
- February 2010 First Friday: Braving the snowpocalypse February 6th, 2010
- First Friday Art Tour Part I April 7th, 2009
- Holiday Group Show: Brown Paper Packages December 4th, 2008
- Laku has the NERVE: A Preview November 3rd, 2009
- May shows: Eye Music, Spring, and Yarn Burners April 25th, 2009
- New paintings at August 1st gallery show, Elegant Funk July 17th, 2008
- Nov 7th Feature Show: A Perfected Communion October 24th, 2008
- Paintings at Indianapolis Visual Fringe 2009 August 3rd, 2009
- Patterns in Flight encore reception August 31st, 2010
- Photos from Wheeler Spring Open House May 16th, 2008
- Review: A Working History of Things to Come May 18th, 2010
- See my work up close at next First Friday, May 2 April 22nd, 2008
- Stutz Art Space Preview: Sight/ Insight: Artists & Places of Inspiration November 5th, 2009
- Stutz Artist Open House 2009 April 25th, 2009
- Three photographs at Dean Johnson Gallery June 28th, 2009
- Video of Rachel at ElegantFunk art show August 3rd, 2008
- Work showing in VisualFringe 2008 at Kuaba Gallery July 23rd, 2008
- Works at Oranje: Contemporary art & music event September 16th, 2009
- Category: General
- Artist statement for Action, Unification January 25th, 2008
- Beauty of Process or Anatomy of a Butterfly October 30th, 2009
- Bones as landscape March 13th, 2008
- Butterfly paintings to be public art at Indianapolis Arts Council new offices May 19th, 2010
- Captured through a lens: I, Clouds May 12th, 2010
- Captured through a lens: II May 17th, 2010
- Captured through a lens: III, Sunrise over Mountains and Lake May 24th, 2010
- Captured through a lens: IV May 31st, 2010
- Captured through a lens: V, Macro Flowers June 7th, 2010
- Captured through a lens: VI June 14th, 2010
- Circular Road April 1st, 2009
- February 2010 First Friday: Braving the snowpocalypse February 6th, 2010
- First Friday Art Tour Part I April 7th, 2009
- First Friday Art Tour Part II April 7th, 2009
- First Friday Art Tour Part III April 7th, 2009
- Foreshadowing: A study of Asian Lillies November 18th, 2008
- Indianapolis-Carmel art class gift certificates for Christmas December 19th, 2009
- Installation of butterfly public art May 31st, 2010
- Looking Down: Sand floating on Water January 8th, 2010
- Magritte's La Reproduction July 21st, 2009
- May shows: Eye Music, Spring, and Yarn Burners April 25th, 2009
- New Paintings of Shells November 19th, 2008
- New Paintings: Butterflies March 9th, 2009
- Preview: Approaches to Abstraction March 29th, 2010
- Rachel Steely newsletter and Facebook fan page created May 17th, 2008
- Review: A Working History of Things to Come May 18th, 2010
- Speed of Time June 8th, 2009
- The Goldfinch May 21st, 2009
- Welcome to my site December 29th, 2007
- Category: Germany
- Category: Reflections on Art
- Category: The Netherlands
- 's-Hertogenbosch, Neeffs, and Bosch June 3rd, 2009
- Authenticity or Accuracy April 21st, 2009
- Circular Road April 1st, 2009
- Eeckhout and Rembrandt: An Intimate Gathering February 10th, 2009
- Escher: Similar Interests February 4th, 2009
- Finding Van Gogh in Nuenen June 23rd, 2009
- Friedrich: Traveling Exhibit September 3rd, 2009
- Friedrich: Traveling Exhibit part II September 5th, 2009
- I Spy Sint Jan Ceiling June 4th, 2009
- Magritte's La Reproduction July 21st, 2009
- Movement, Trams, Amsterdam July 7th, 2009
- Stages of Mondrian January 21st, 2009
- The Goldfinch May 21st, 2009
- Variations on a Theme Part 1 April 10th, 2009
- Variations on a Theme Part 2 April 10th, 2009
- Category: Travel
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I have always been drawn to natural, organic objects and choose to portray them with oil on textured surfaces. Often, I present my subject in "dynamic still life" with a shift of time through movement or growth-decay. I am originally from the rust-belt city of Rockford, Illinois. I left the manufacturing town to study fine art at Asbury College and find inspiration among the rolling hills and forests of rural Kentucky. Although consistently representational, I strive to create subtlety layered visual and philosophical metaphors. In 2005, I returned to the country's heartland where I am active in the local art community of Indianapolis, Indiana. Next to oil painting, my greatest passion is helping others appreciate art by teaching private classes.
