Installation created as a Google Artist in Residence on permanent display at the Google Mountain View campus. Collaged cyanotype banners depict moments of interaction between the sun and architecture surrounding the installation site. Suspended in a Sunbeam, 2019, cyanotype on muslin, 6’x17’
Detail of Returning to…(Develop before April 1972), 2017. Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
The installation of expired photographic slide plates reflects photography’s link to a distinct point in time. Plates were shattered, exposed, developed and reassembled to recreate the decisive moment of capture.
Current work in progress, 2021. Digitally manipulated photogram embossed with Blue Gum Eucalyptus bark collected in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park.
Arielle Rebek
Lecturer
Email: arebek@berkeley.edu
Website: www.ariellerebek.com
Instagram: @arirebek
Office Hours: Zoom and AAPB 275. Tuesday 2-3 via Zoom, Thursdays 12-12:30 by appointment in 275
Arielle Rebek (she/her) is an Oakland-based artist and educator whose work employs photography and installation. Working across analog and digital technology, Rebek explores translations of space, markers of time, and the visual language of archives. Rebek’s process is one of intuitive action—walking, collecting, folding, wrapping—that is informed by a specific attention to the physicality of her materials. She is interested in how a photograph can simultaneously reveal and withhold information. Arielle’s recent work examines the human-altered landscape surrounding the Bay Area.
Arielle is originally from the Chicago area and earned her BA in Studio Art from Carleton College. She has an MFA in Art Studio from the University of California - Davis, where she was awarded the Margrit Mondavi Fellowship and Mary Lou Osborn Award. Rebek has exhibited internationally, notably the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Arts-Singapore, Minnesota Street Project, and Carleton College. In 2019, she was a Google Artist in Residence where she completed a site specific installation at the Google Mountain View campus. Arielle has participated in additional residencies at The Image Flow and LASALLE College of the Arts and is a current resident artist at Kala Art Institute. Arielle has taught photography courses at UC Davis, Carleton College, and San Joaquin Delta College in addition to UC Berkeley. She is regularly involved with the San Francisco arts nonprofit, Root Division, where she teaches workshops in bookmaking and cyanotype.
Courses Taught:
ART 21 Beginning Digital Photography
ART 180 Advanced Digital Photography