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              • Mario Loprete
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              • Joan Bell
              • Paul Hunter
              • Xiaojie Liu
              • Chris Perry
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                                                                  October 2020
                                               INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
                     
Rachel Yurkovich 
ARTIST STATEMENT
In our modern world, there is a struggle to monitor appetites and avoid overindulgence. I am in constant observation of thoughtless choices, noticing that we often do not realize the weight of the impact we have on ourselves and our environment. In response to this, I frame instances of uninhibited consumption and the damaging consequences they often bring. For my current series Foreign Bodies, I am focusing on capturing moving images of instances where human-made and non-human nature interrupt each other, going where they're "not supposed to". These are shots of situations normally overlooked, such as plastic bags caught in trees, or roadkill on the pavement. ​

Dollar Tree Looped video, 1:32 min Seagulls eating chips in the Dollar Tree parking lot at Steelyard Commons. Filmed 04.18.2019 in Cleveland, Ohio.
South Marginal Road (2) Looped video, 1:14 min Dead groundhog and flies on South Marginal Road. Filmed 07.09.2019 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wendy Park (2) Looped video, 2:05 min Plastic Dave's bag getting pushed around in Lake Erie at Wendy Park's dock. Filmed 07.20.2019 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Lakeside Avenue Looped video, 0:24 min Plastic sheeting caught in a tree on Lakeside Avenue. Filmed 04.07.2019 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sidari Foods Looped video, 0:19 min A pedestrian walks by in front of the Sidari Foods building on East 40th Street. Filmed 04.18.2019 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wade Lagoon (Black Garbage Bag) Looped video, 1:08 min Black plastic garbage bag floating in Wade Lagoon. Filmed 01.16.2020 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wade Lagoon (Thank You For Shopping Here!) Looped video, 0:25 min Filmed 01.09.2020 at Wade Lagoon, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wade Lagoon (White Plastic Bag #2) Looped video, 1:09 min. White Plastic bag floating in Wade Lagoon. Filmed 02.03.2020
Dead Fish and Plastic Straw #2 Looped video, 0:52 min 05.01.2020 Edgewater Beach

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Rachel Yurkovich was born in South Carolina, but lived most of her developing years in Skopje, North Macedonia and Prague, Czechia.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2014. With an interest in living things and their movement as a medium, her work often ends up as video. Rachel was granted the 2014 First Agnes Gund Traveling Award, which allowed her to travel to Chernobyl, Ukraine for the filming of Black Grass in 2016. Following this opportunity Rachel's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the ROY G BIV Gallery (Columbus, OH), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), and Bruce Gallery (Edinboro, PA). Her videos have also been featured in film festivals such as the Barcelona Planet Film Festival (Spain), The Berlin Flash Film Festival (Germany) and the Sandalia Sustainability Film Festival (Sassari, Italy).
Rachel is currently living in Cleveland, Ohio, where she works at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as an Interpretive Media Coordinator.


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  • Facebook: @rachelyurkovich.art https://www.facebook.com/rachelyurkovich.art/



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