About

Short Bio

Rachel Kaufmann is an oil painter, working in the Berkshires, MA. She has a MS from Pratt Institute in Art and Design Education and a BA from Bard College in Studio Art. She is interested in painting scenes that tell a story.

Statement

Rachel Kaufmann's work focuses on aspects of her own experiences. She focuses on scenes that show the way that different people interact in a place and time.  These pieces could be the story of a band filling up the streets of Great Barrington with music on a summer evening or the reflection from the Fuel Coffee Shop on a morning in April.  She enjoys exploring what can visually depict an emotional truth: the intensity that can show through depicting herself in all reds, or how it feels to watch the sky light up into a sunset. Motifs throughout her work includes reflections, the sky, and scale techniques to reflect feelings.