Rachel Gugler

I work from imaginative pools of interest. I stand where I am and I see looking as an art.  According to Milton Glaser there is no art, just artists.  I truly believe that.  I worked with artists in graduate school who ranged in fields from studio art to history and racial justice, jurisprudence and place and memory studies from a feminist geographical perspective.

My friend and former professor in geography recently passed on to me the recipe for well toned creative work:  Find out what you are passionate about, take risks and trust your intuition.  I never went to art school but have learned from people I love in workshops, classes, and my own mother who is an incredible printmaker.

I believe in the spirituality in art and art making and its healing potential.  Art is about life and so it exists beyond a piece of paper to celebrate what is most sacred to and about us. 

I have shown locally in group exhibits and my work is in both the flat file project and the archive at Zea Mays printmaking studio where I have been a full time member for six years. 

My work is as serious as my life:  imaginative, funny, deadly.