Rachelle Reichert is a visual artist and art educator. She works in a variety of media to explore landscapes permanently altered by climate change and industrialization.

Reichert states that “My graphite drawings and salt sculptures utilize elemental materials to examine the environmental and cultural consequences of technological advancement. These abstract, monochromatic works are rooted in an intensive research process concerned with industrial land use, climate change, and the human definition of progress. Referencing the extraction methods used to obtain natural substances found in consumer technology, I meticulously layer, rub, render, or remove these minerals from my chosen substrate. My drawings, in particular, take on a subtly photographic quality—mimicking shapes and patterns found in satellite imagery of sites of mineral extraction. The poetic effects of entropic forces lend emotional understanding to a planet in flux.”

Reichert has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, and September Gallery. She has presented her practice at the California Climate Change Symposium, San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference, and the American Geophysical Union Meeting.

Reichert was born in New Jersey and lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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