ABOUT

Rachel Hellmann is a multi-disciplinary artist who is known for her ongoing series of meticulously- crafted geometric sculptures and paintings. 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.

Rachel Hellmann lives and works in Indianapolis, Indiana. She holds an MFA from Boston University and a B.F.A. from the University of Dayton. Hellmann’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally at a variety of venues including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, the Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, ME, the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Ill and the Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY. In additional to exhibiting at commercial galleries throughout the US, Hellmann has also exhibited internationally at Saenger Galeria (Mexico City), iGallery (Palma, Spain), Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) and Kirk Gallery (Aalborg, Denmark).

Hellmann is the recipient of the Blanche E. Colman Award for Painting. She was also awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, Playa, the Corning Museum of Glass and Fundación Miro Mallorca (Palma, Spain). In 2015, she was the Edward E. Elson Artist- in-Residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art and she was recently awarded a residency at the Kimmel Nelson Harding Fine Art Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Hellmann’s work is included in numerous public and private collections including the the Zillman Art Museum, Fidelity Corporation, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Morgan Stanley, Boston Federal Reserve Bank, Commerce Bank, Burke Rehabilitation Center, Cummins Inc, Eskenazi Health, Cleary Gottlieb, McDermott Will & Emery, William P Clements University Hospital (University of Texas) and the US Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Hellmann was Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Northern Essex Community College from 2008 until May of 2013 when she relocated to Indiana to work full-time as an artist. Before joining faculty at NECC, she taught at Mount Ida College, School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Bunker Hill Community College. She has been a visiting artist at many colleges including: MassArt, Dartmouth College, Whittier College, Purdue University, Ann Arundel Community College, Ball State University and Rhode Island School of Design.