Bio
b. 1989 in San Diego, CA
Atlanta-based artist and writer Rebecca Chacon earned her BFA from San Diego State University and recently graduated with an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts.
Artist Statement
My work is an investigation of identity. I began by recalling a memory and expressing through movement deep-rooted emotions. The abstract psychological landscapes are constructed of many layers of paints, mediums, and graphite lines. These markings are the language in which I communicate my memory. The actual act of painting large-scale work brought me in and out of memory. Some surfaces were malleable like paper, and others are solid like wood. I would paint a piece as one, pull it apart, rearrange it, and put it back together again. This process allows me to understand more about how memory presents itself. Some are vivid and connected, while others are dull and distant. I also use collage as a form of reconstructing memory. Pictures often replace memory as evidence.
As a form of ritual, I use patten to ask a question over and over again. Sometimes I find the answer, while at other times, I only find more questions. I want to know the root of my layers, my memories, and my identities. When I dress up or apply layers of makeup, I perform an identity. Abstraction was the beginning of my exploration of asking the harder questions of identity and the complexity of being a woman who lives in between the binaries. Through art, I am in constant search for a place, a home for all my layers to reside within.