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Exhibition Detail Yolanda Klappert, Rachel Ross Cutting Edge ArtHouse Gallery @TVA 416 Broadway Santa Monica, CA 90401 June 12th, 2007 - July 22nd, 2007 Opening: June 17th, 2007 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
	Rachel Ross

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Rachel Ross:

Born and raised on a kibbutz settled by Holocaust survivors determined to keep their horros cloaked, the ever curious Rachel stumbled on horrific photographs hidden by her father of emaciated nude, lifeless bodies – documentation of the Holocaust never intended for the innocent eyes of an eight year old daughter. The undeveloped spiritualism of the secularly raised Rachel may have been inspired for the first time.

The urgency with which Rachel produces her art, secular as well as religious, might spring from passions and compassions but the birthing-like pain/joy experienced while re-creating nature’s grace surely stems from her own life and her hope to recapture such emotional magnitude in a different form.

Creative by nature, Rachel wrestles with God and man. Her struggle is influenced by historical truths, current events, her faith, as well as her doting and supportive husband of thirty years and her six dynamic children. The busy household which she presides over fuels her creative nature, enticing her with different but common forms of the human.

Yolanda Klappert:

Digital Painting

I begin each picture with a blank canvas (or screen). The pictures are not scanned images that are “doctored.” I create individually unique works of art while making intuitive decisions about color, depth, perspective, texture, movement, volume, line and mass.

The resulting photographic-like paintings, created and rendered on a computer, are printed on special photographic paper with archival inks. Each picture’s wire frame or shell sub-structure is composed of hundreds of individual polygons.

The rendering process of the final image takes many, many hours or even days to complete. The completed pictures are composed of several hundred million pixels in size and are so large that they cannot be seen in their entirety on a computer screen until they are printed.

The element of surprise is truly a delight, as I often discover unusual and exciting effects not previously evident on the computer screen.

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