Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Painting, drawing, mural
Website: rachelakaye.com
Rachel Kaye was born in 1981 and lives and works in San Francisco with her husband, artist Jay Nelson, and their two daughters. She received her BFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery and Johansson Projects in Oakland. She has been an artist in residence at the Lucid Art Foundation and the Facebook Artist in Residence Program (Building 20, designed by Frank Gehry), and has completed large-scale commissioned murals for Google, Meta, and Hook Fish Restaurant in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset.
Kaye works in painting, drawing, and mural, with color and pattern as her primary languages. Her paintings balance a meditative sensitivity to tone with careful formal investigation: warm pastel fields modulated by swirling lines and graphic shapes that resist easy reading but reward slow looking. She works in water-based oils applied in thick, quick brushstrokes, building layers where hard edges meet soft textures. Her practice has an intimate relationship with her domestic and studio life — she and Nelson share a studio they built together in their Outer Sunset home, and the two often show together, their practices in quiet dialogue without merging. Drawing has always been at the core of her work, and her line carries the ease and restlessness of a daily practice. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, and Palm Beach.
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