Represented artist

Lives and works in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Rachel Hellmann is a multi-disciplinary artist who is known for her ongoing series of meticulously crafted geometric sculptures and paintings. Her works fuse the mediums of painting and sculpture and seemingly defy the movement of the solid and heavy wooden medium with their carefully coordinated use of light, shadow, and dimension. Working both three-dimensionally and on paper, the resulting forms explore the way in which the viewer’s perception is disoriented by the distorted sense of gravity caused by the careful interplay of geometry, light, and color. 

She holds an MFA from Boston University and a B.F.A. from the University of Dayton, OH. Her work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally at a variety of venues including SAENGER Galería, Mexico City; the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA; the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, ME; the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA; and the Elmhurst Museum of Art in Elmhurst, IL. 

Hellmann has been the recipient of the Blanche E. Colman Award for Painting, the Constatin Alajalov Award at Boston University, and was awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in Forest Park, IL, Platte Clove Preserve, Catskills, NY and Playa in Eastern Oregon. 

Her work integrates several collections, including the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Zillman Art Museum; Fidelity Corporation; Dana Farber Cancer Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Boston Federal Reserve Bank; Morgan Stanley; Cummins Inc; Cleary Gottlieb and the US Embassy in Sri Lanka.

She has been a professor of art at multiple institutions and has been a visiting artist at many colleges including: MassArt, Boston, MA; Dartmouth College, and Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 

Rachel Hellmann is represented exclusively in Mexico by SAENGER Galería.