February 15 - March 22, 2025
From Erin Clubby Gallery:
“Erin Cluley Gallery is pleased to announce Red Rum Punch, an exhibition of work by Fort Worth-based artist Rachel Livedalen. The exhibition will debut new small-scale paintings continuing the artist’s eclectic sampling of mass-produced ephemera, pop cultural design, and Greco-Roman motifs. Reducing artifacts from antiquity and contemporary culture to their base shapes and colors, Livedalen’s paintings show the evolution of design through Western history. Her multidisciplinary work incorporates printmaking techniques including stenciling and screen-printing with abstract paint application; Red Rum Punch takes a distinctly loose approach to the commercial influence entrenched in
girlhood and history of standardized feminine beauty. Rachel Livedalen’s painting practice seamlessly melds techniques from printmaking, assemblage, and found-image collage. Her layered compositions often mirror, and subtly critique, the perfectionist aesthetics of advertising design; however, abstract color fields and complex cultural references reveal Livedalen’s hand in her work. The artist’s breadth of reference spans Grecian pottery, Cher vinyl record packaging, Lisa Frank sticker sheets, as well as many other design iconographies. Livedalen’s precise compositions blur the historical and cultural divides between her expansive allusions to female adolescence. Red Rum Punch oscillates between celebration and critique of the Western lineage of societies influence on young women. Livedalen’s artistic dedication to this misrepresented and undervalued history casts a humorous shadow over the dominating masculine narratives of childhood. Her painting, Harmony, sort of (2024), uses snaking lines of ying yang stickers and Greco-Roman busts to show the lightheartedness of commercial ephemera and the genuine enjoyment children derive from simple design. This work eschews adult narratives of productivity and seriousness to celebrate elements of play in art. In her paintings, Livedalen places the value of varied references on equal footing, allowing viewers to
contemplate their intersecting journeys throughout history. Rachel Livedalen’s newest exhibition of work sees her reducing the scale of her paintings without sacrificing potency. The artist’s condensed narratives of female adolescence seriously consider the
lineage of art as it intersects with commercialized pop culture. The exhibition’s title, Red Rum Punch, showcases her tongue-in-
cheek exploration of this bold-font and technicolor world. Livedalen suggests a form of critique without condemnation— where we can enjoy the sentimentality and sincerity of
contemporary life.”
Reception: February 22, 2025 | 5–7 pm
150 Manufacturing Street, Suite 210
Dallas , 75212 Texas
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