Rachel Kalman Biography

Rachel received her BA from the University of Puget Sound and her MFA from The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

She has recently moved back to Emeryville where she paints and teaches. Rachel works primarily from observation - spending most of her time making intimate portraits of inanimate objects in oil paint. She is interested in juxtaposing decorative aesthetics with difficult realities. Her work is full of notions of representation; kitsch, horror, humor, and metaphor.