Rebecca Stern

Rebecca Stern is an artist living and working in Fairfield, CT. She graduated with honors from Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2009. Her work is numerous private collections and she has participated in solo and group exhibitions across the country for the past 12 years.


About the work:

The mind, absent of outside stimuli, is left to flow - to process without interruption, to examine and decipher truth. A lovely, if fleeting, ideal. My work serves to examine the complicated and distinct interruptions in the mental landscape that shape our emotions and actions.
The universally understood themes of growth, change, grief, and joy are punctuated in complex moments of cloudiness, of tangled material cut to pieces and put back together. When the proper tools are absent, they are created. Giant, hand-hewn brushes are crafted, the archives of past work mined and put to use; layered, covered, and revealed again as bright beacons of color and dark caverns of stitches that give way to flowing, river-like brushstrokes.
Each piece is a working-through of sorts, the discovery of a path that leads, however briefly, back to the pleasant background-hum of our minds at peace. A journey that creates areas to breathe, pause,...

Lesley University College of Art and Design, BFA, 2009

Selected Exhibitions
Falling Into Place, Liz Lidgett Gallery, February 2022
Mindfulness, The Visionary Projects curated by Voss Gallery, April 2021
Look Forward, Look Back, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, January 2021
Abstractly Speaking 6+1, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, March 2020
Freedom of Abstraction, Site Brooklyn, May 2019
W-Intermission, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, December 2018
Unravel, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport RI, November 2018
Then and Now, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford CT September 2018
Relishing Restraint, LAA Phillips Gallery, Stamford CT, September 2018
CCNS Art Show, Rowayton CT, May 2018
UNICEF Next Gen Art Show curated by Tappan Collective, Los Angeles CA, February 2018
New Year, New Art, Loft Artists Association, Stamford CT, January 2018
Views from the Edge: Women, Gender and Politics, Sarah Doyle Gallery, March 2015
Honoring Women’s Rights, Steinbeck Museum, Salinas, CA – September 2012
Control, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA – August 2009
Taking In: The Best of AIB Photography, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA – July 2009
Small Works 2009, Experimental Art Gallery and Studio, Salem, MA – June 2009
BFA Thesis Show, 601 Newbury Street Gallery, Boston, MA – May 2009
The Contemporary Pho...