Zugunruhe
2009 - 2010
Rachel Berwick
Killingworth, Connecticut
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Rachel Berwick
Rachel Berwick’s multi-media installations examine the threshold between nature and culture as a means of exploring themes of extinction and loss and our inevitable desire to recover what is lost. She has had five solo exhibitions in New York, including the installation Lonesome George at Sikkema Jenkins, which was also included in Becoming Animal at Mass MoCA. Her installation Zugunruhe was exhibited at Brown University and The Smithsonian American Art Museum. For over twenty years, Berwisk has developed and maintained a work titled may-por-é, in which parrots she trained to speak an extinct indigenous South American language live in a sculptural aviary, exhibited at venues such as The Serpentine Gallery, London, and the 26th Bienal de São Paolo. Berwick has been the recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Residency, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters & Sculptors, and a Smithsonian Artists’ Research Fellowship. She is professor in the Glass Department at The Rhode Island School of Design.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2012
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I derive inspiration from the many ways in which nature is collected, studied, preserved, exploited and displayed. My work invites the viewer to consider the interconnectivity of human to human and human to animal, within our surrounding environment.”