About - Rachel Siporin

My work has evolved out of still life I continue to be involved with observation, although a conceptual, constructed space replaces a more traditional approach to still life. These figure compositions are based on objects I collect, and the process begins with the search. In the search, I am drawn to the object, but it is only later, during the process of painting that I understand the object’s connection to the meaning of the painting. Dramatic lighting is an important tool I employ as I construct narratives dealing with autobiographical themes.

Rachel Siporin is Professor of Art at Central Connecticut State University, having joined the full time faculty in 1984. Siporin received her BA from Brandeis University and her MFA from Yale University.  Siporin’s work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at the The Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA 2005, Roxbury’s Minor Memorial Gallery, Roxbury, CT. 2004, and the Donaldson Gallery, Miss Porter’s School Farmington, CT. 2003.  In addition Rachel Siporin  was included in The Perceived Object: Directions in Contemporary Still Life, Beard and Weil Art Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA.