Curated by
May 2, 2025
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May 21, 2025
Rachel Eng
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 6-8pm
NARS Project Space
NARS Foundation is pleased to present Compression, a solo exhibition by Rachel Eng. Compression is an installation of hand pressed bricks made from clay local to Cumberland County, PA, video projection, and sound. Initial project themes have been related to land use, natural and built systems, and regeneration. Questions of where our materials come from, where they travel and their subsequent impacts are central in this. Bringing a rural site, to an urban city.
About the artist:
Rachel Eng (she/her) earned her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University. Eng has shown her work in solo exhibitions at Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA: 2023), The Springfield Museum of Art (Springfield, OH; 2023), Jane Hartsook Gallery (NYC, NY: 2022), and Flecker Gallery (Long Island, NY; 2020). Recent group exhibitions include: AIM Biennial (Miami, FL & Online; 2023), Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg, PA; 2023) Maguire Art Museum (Merion Station, PA; 2023), Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ; 2022), and The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA; 2020), She has held residencies at McColl Center (Charlotte, NC), Studio Kura (Fukuoka, Japan), and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, ME), among others. In 2021 she was awarded a Windgate Fellowship through the Center for Emerging Visual Arts in Philadelphia and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work is in various private and public collections including the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art (Republic of Korea) and Peninsula College Ceramics Collection (Port Angeles, WA). She currently lives in Carlisle, PA with her family, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Dickinson College.
This exhibition is made possible with support from the the Dickinson College Research & Development Committee.
This project was made possible with Dana Research Assistants Trudy Chung and Sophie Phillips.
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