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Rebecca
Rhees recently graduated with her Masters of Fine Arts degree
in photography at the University of South Carolina, with her
MFA exhibition featured in McMaster Gallery last April.
During her graduate study, she received the John Benz
Graduate Studio Art Award from the University's Department of
Art, recognizing her for the excellence of her graduate work.
Previously, Rhees earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts
degree from Brigham Young University, in Utah, where she is
originally from. There
she earned the prestigious Dean’s Award for the College of
Fine Art and Communications.
Rhees
has been represented by City Art Gallery since 2002, when she
was featured as one of the new artists in the School’s Out:
Emerging Artists of the Southeast Exhibition.
She also exhibits her work throughout the country,
included in shows in such cities as New York, Chicago,
Washington DC, Austin, Cambridge, as well as locally here in
the Southeastern region.
Rhees has received numerous awards for the exhibitions
she has participated in, such as the juror’s award for the
Photo National Exhibit in Pennsylvania, given by Therese
Mulligan and Jeanne Verlhurst, associate curators of the
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography.
Her work is also included in the permanent collections
of the Lamar Dodd Art Center, and the Millennium Arts Center.
Rhees is currently interested in the expressive
capabilities of historic photographic processes, and their
relevance to contemporary experience.
Her recent body of work features the tintype, which she
uses for the inherently unique characteristics to portray her
view of the subject of home.
Artist
Statement
"New
Works" Exhibit
"New
Works" Press
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