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DESCRIPTION
Oil, parchment on gessoed Fabriano
7 x 10 in
2025
“It is not down to any map; true places never are.”
Ishmael in Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Archipelagos: These abstract works on paper are from a series exploring shifting landscapes—physical and emotional. Using salvaged materials from daily life, here browned parchment paper from her child’s baking adventures, she reflects on themes of uncertainty, resilience, and belonging. These domestic fragments, altered by time and heat, carry quiet metaphors of transformation. The works map connections between solitude, togetherness, memory, and the pull toward something vast and unknown.
BIO
Rebecca Szeto is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist interested in the poetic intersection of the material and immaterial. Through chance and intuitive play with salvaged materials and everyday objects, she investigates notions of beauty and value, drawing attention to what is often overlooked or marginalized. By combining familiar materials in unexpected ways, she creates “slippages”—deliberate moments of tension that invite fresh connections and meaning. Recent solo and group exhibitions and awards include Transformations and Totems (Franklin & Marshall University, Phillips Museum of Art, 2024), Essential Work (Ursinus University, Berman Museum of Art, 2023), a Center for Cultural Innovation Grant (2023), and Casting Contingency (Institute of Advanced Uncertainty, 2019).
DESCRIPTION
Oil, parchment on gessoed Fabriano
7 x 10 in
2025
“It is not down to any map; true places never are.”
Ishmael in Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Archipelagos: These abstract works on paper are from a series exploring shifting landscapes—physical and emotional. Using salvaged materials from daily life, here browned parchment paper from her child’s baking adventures, she reflects on themes of uncertainty, resilience, and belonging. These domestic fragments, altered by time and heat, carry quiet metaphors of transformation. The works map connections between solitude, togetherness, memory, and the pull toward something vast and unknown.
BIO
Rebecca Szeto is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist interested in the poetic intersection of the material and immaterial. Through chance and intuitive play with salvaged materials and everyday objects, she investigates notions of beauty and value, drawing attention to what is often overlooked or marginalized. By combining familiar materials in unexpected ways, she creates “slippages”—deliberate moments of tension that invite fresh connections and meaning. Recent solo and group exhibitions and awards include Transformations and Totems (Franklin & Marshall University, Phillips Museum of Art, 2024), Essential Work (Ursinus University, Berman Museum of Art, 2023), a Center for Cultural Innovation Grant (2023), and Casting Contingency (Institute of Advanced Uncertainty, 2019).