Rebecca Bird Wins Commission for 15 x 91 foot Mural for the Ground Floor of New Seattle Children's Research Institute's Building Cure

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Rebecca Bird Wins Commission for 15 x 91 foot Mural for the Ground Floor of New Seattle Children's Research Institute's Building Cure    NEW YORK, October 22, 2018 - William Holman Gallery and Seattle Children's Research Institute are very pleased to announce the award of a major interior mural commission to artist Rebecca Bird, a native of Seattle, Washington, who lives and works in New York. The mural, to be completed over the next ten months, will be unveiled during the summer of 2019 at the opening of Seattle Children's newest pediatric research facility Building Cure™, located at Stewart Street and Terry Avenue, in downtown Seattle. Bird was selected from over 125 regional and national artists invited to be part of the competitive selection process. Spanning the full length of a basketball court and 15 feet tall, the mural is one of the largest interior commissions of its kind in the United States, and will occupy the Stewart Street Lobby public interior space, visible from the street 24 hours a day and open to the public during business hours. The composition focuses on a series of narrative vignettes about the history and mission of the research institute within an abstracted landscape representing the broader field of human experience and future endeavor.  William Holman Gallery  Chip Holman :: chip@wholmangallery.co C. 646.286.7254      O. 212.475.1500   Works by Rebecca Bird can also be seen here:  http://www.wholmangallery.com/exhibitions/ http://rebeccabird.info/#artist   About Seattle Children's Research Institute:   https://www.seattlechildrens.org/research About the new Building Cure: https://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/about/facilities/building-cure-research-institute-expansion/ #fineartmagazine

Catch William Holman Gallery, Rebecca Bird's SYMMETRY Wednesday, September 16, from 6 to 8pm Exhibition on view from September 9 - October 10, 2015

Rebecca Bird: SYMMETRY    Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16, from 6 to 8pm   Exhibition on view from September 9  -  October 10, 2015   William Holman Gallery | 65 Ludlow Street | New York | www.wholmangallery.com

Rebecca Bird, Helix, 2015, marbling, acrylic and oil on canvas, 50 x 30 inches

NEW YORK, August 11, 2015 -William Holman Gallery is pleased to present a second major exhibition of Rebecca Bird's new paintings and watercolors which explore the aesthetic ideal of symmetry in abstract forms, landscapes, floating geographies and waterscapes.  The works in Symmetry challenge our visual understanding of landscape and space as images that impose rationality (North is up) and subjectivity (foreground/background) on nature.  Bird has twisted the visual language of the landscape using 'double' and 'mirror' images to evoke mystical imagery and scenes from memory, cultural traces of Niagara Falls, and vast imaginary floating islands. The remarkable realism of her draughtsmanship renders many of the works as readable 'places' but they are also unsettling, surreal and reveal traces of anxiety.  The viewer becomes completely engaged in composition and detail - but is never completely secure about where she 'stands' in relationship to the work.

Rebecca Bird, Descent, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 72 x 72 inches

Descent, (72 x 72 inches) is an exquisite and surreal landscape painting in which hundreds of gaudily colored discarded shoes spill over the dusty walls of a crumbing Egyptian building in a composition based on Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross.  The sumptuary painting of the shoes suggests the brief life of consumer goods, while the indistinct urban setting suggests the obscure final destination of discarded products.  The missing half of the story appears in Sour Grapes, 2015; a New York storefront full of plastic fruit, packaging and display William Holman Gallery                           Subways:  65 Ludlow Street                                      F/M or J/M/Z to Essex/ Delancey New York, NY 10002                                B/D to Grand Street 212.475.1500 #fineartmagazine