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About Rachel

Rachel is an artist, shoemaker and sometimes-poet.

 

She is currently working on small films and big ideas at the University of Santa Barbara California, and at home among the avocado trees.

 

She seeks a more just world for all creatures.  

Rachel Corry

b. Santa Cruz 1982

lives and works in Santa Barbara CA

 

Education

2025 - 2027 MFA UCSB

2000 - 2004  BA UCLA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023 ‘Appleshaped earth/ Xerox Queen’ Gospel Flat Gallery, Bolinas CA

2010 ‘Candy, Grass, Apples, Ads’ General Store, San Francisco CA

2008 'Vegetable Parinirvana' anniversary, Private residence, San Francisco CA

2007 'Now All the Fun is Indoors' Tartine bakery, San Francisco CA

2007 'Vegetable Parinirvana' performance, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA

 

Group Exhibitions

2025 ‘Eden dreams in Blueprints’ Glass Box Gallery, UCSB Santa Barbara CA

2025 ‘Dream Juice’ Portland Community College's Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland OR

2024 'Shoe Show' Working Loose, Blue Hill MA

2024 ‘Rock Show’ Working Loose, Blue Hill MA

2024 ‘Between Dreams and Reality’ Bespoke Footwear, Penland Gallery, Bakersville NC

2023 ‘Hand Made in America’ Center for Design and Material Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2017 ‘Fauvist Group Show’ Association Gallery, Portland OR

2011 ‘The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Group’ 0FR Gallery, Paris France

2011 ‘In Search of The Emerald City’ Mollusk at the Beach Gallery, Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan

2010 ‘Bread Show’ Tartine Bakery, San Francisco CA

2009 Adobe Books 20th Anniversary Annual Art Auction, Adobe Books, San Francisco CA

2008 'Cat People' Tartine bakery, San Francisco CA

2007 ‘Cali in CPH, Part Two: Bucket of Ice’ co-lab Gallery, Copenhagen Denmark

2006 'The Magic Stone in the Secret Cave' Floral Gallery, Oakland CA

2006 'Flowers & Shapes' Tartine bakery, San Francisco CA

2005 'Faith' Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA

2004 'Everyone Loves a Parade', Wight Gallery, University of Los Angeles CA

 

Curatorial Work 

2024 Shoe Show Working Loose, Blue Hill ME

2022 OPEM S&S Corner Shop & Gallery, East Hampton NY

2017 Fauvist Group Show, Association Gallery, Portland OR

2006-2012 Tartine Bakery, San Francisco CA

 

Extra

Ultraviolet Books Publishing 2021-Current

Guest teaching at Santa Barbara Middle School Sandal Class 2022

Guest shoemaking lecture at Bolinas-Stinson School 2021

Sandalmaking Workshop published with Storey 2021

KSMOCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art) Mentor Program 2017-2019 

Founded Fauvist Online Art Gallery 2017-2019

Life Drawing Events at Yale Union in Portland OR 2016-2020

Co-founded Pansy Co 2013- Current

Founded Rachel Sees Snail Shoes 2010-Current

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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.       

-Carl Jung

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