About

STATEMENT

As a process painter, I paint to make emotion tangible. I am guided by intuition and impulse. I often paint slowly, finding that time is required to connect to emotion and translate it through paint. At other times impulses move the work forward quickly.

In nearly all cases, the work emerges in many layers. My final paintings often have many other pictures hidden beneath the surface one sees. Only I know the path that led to the final painting, but I rarely hold onto the memory of the process for long. It is less important to recall the stages of a painting's development than to find the moment of completion and appreciate that I arrived there.

My work has evolved as my life has evolved, through highs and lows, love and loss, and ever deepening awareness and expansion. Color and form emerge to communicate both emotion and the sense of space I perceive when I connect to my emotions. As I explore the space emotion inhabits, I am interested in the push and pull of tension in that space.

I paint in acrylic and mixed media, on canvas, panels and paper.  

I welcome inquiries regarding purchases and exhibitions, and I always welcome a conversation.

BIOGRAPHY

Following a long career in graphic design, Rochelle embarked on a journey into personal creative expression.

After selling her design firm in 2011 and embarking on a deep dive into studying creativity, Rochelle established a new career as a coach, to support women to access and activate creativity in every dimension of their lives and work.

In parallel, Rochelle began her personal work as an artist. She studied painting at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University and continues to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

Her abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings are notable for their rich evocative surfaces, use of color, and mystery, that emerge from slow and deep internal explorations.

EXHIBITIONS

Bromfield Gallery, Boston   |   WinterWorks 2017 (juried)
SMFA Holiday Art Sale   |   2017, 2018, 2019
SMFA CE Show   |   Spring, 2018
SMFA CE Show   |   September 2018
Cambridge Art Association   |   Mary Schein Fall Salon 2018, 2019
Cambridge Art Association   |   RED 2018  (Juried by Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, at Harvard University)
Krakow Witkin Gallery   |   Annual AIDS Benefit 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Cambridge Art Association   |   Spectrum 2019
Massachusetts State House, Senate Chamber exhibition | 2019
Cambridge Art Association   |   Transparency 2020 (Juried)
Cambridge Art Association   |   RED 2020  (Juried by Layla Bermeo, the Kristin and Roger Servison Associate Curator of American Paintings, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Cambridge Art Association | National Prize Show 2022 (Juried by Barbara O’Brien, independent curator and critic, former Executive Director of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.)

ARTIST TALKS

ICA Boston  |  2009   |  Gallery talk at Shepherd Fairey Exhibition: A Designer’s Perspective
Cambridge Art Association  |  December 2018   |  Feedback Forum