Rebecca Horne is a Brooklyn-based artist working in photography. Rebecca has taught fine art photography at the California College of the Arts and Rutgers University and has written on art, photography and science at Wired, CNN, the National Academy of Sciences, and Nautilus Magazine. She is recipient of a 2022 residency fellowship from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
Her photography has appeared in publications and catalogs including Tèlèrama Magazine, Adbusters and her book Pseudologia. Exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at Galerie Confluence in Nantes, France, Roebling Hall Gallery in New York City, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and group shows including City Hall in San Francisco with SF Arts Commission, and the Recontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, France.
Artist statement:
I’m compelled by opposites: The contrast of flatness with the volumetric, fluidity with stillness, of science with the metaphysical. Another overarching theme in my work is slippage in scale—the supermassive to the intimate and hand held.
As a child I went on archaeological digs with my father. Tiny shards and arrowheads unfolded into detailed stories. Much of my artwork imagines phenomena both seen and unseen.
My photographs are cycles. My photographs are performances. My photographs are experiments. They start as drawings, then become temporary constructions that are photographed and become flat again. In an alchemical process of play and plan, matter might be carbon molecules or planets in eclipse, portals, or dissolving into sound waves.