Rachel Maxi

Rachel is a Seattle-based artist working in painting and sculpture. She has exhibited her work in the PNW for over 30 years.

“I am interested in natural and built environments – how we move in them, how we make space, and how we interact with nature, both physically and spiritually. For me, nature is the sacred and divine, and we are part of that.

I like the puzzle and balancing act of the various elements a sculpture or a painting, concurrently harmonious and dissonant, dark, and light, illusional and real, or soft and sharp. I generally don’t sketch out a plan or blueprint to work from; a piece always changes in the act of making it. I let the material tell me how and where it wants to go. I feel for the natural physical logic of things, but also find that, often, the things I like most are not what I understand or ever imagined working visually. 

I am an explorer, collector, and creator. Sometimes I collect physical things—little pieces of wood or rusty bits of metal I find in the gutter—and sometimes I collect visuals: changing color and light, plants, birds, natural and urban landscapes, urban decay.”

AMcE Exhibitions
Embodiment May 2024