Artist Works

EDUCATION

BFA 1998   Memphis College of Art , Major: Decorative Design, concentration in Fiber
Viola-Joyce Quigley Memorial Textile Award, Lytle McKee Memorial Scholarship, Shainberg Scholarship
University of Memphis, 27 hours toward BFA
BA 1984   Emory University, Major: Religion-Judaic Studies
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, one year
Austin College, Sherman, TX, one year

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009-present   Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
2009   Group Show Translations Gallery
2005   New Mexico Museum of Art, Juried Exhibition: New Mexico Women Artists
2004-present   Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2004   Art Expo New York, Jacob Javitz Center
2000-2003    Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999   Contemporary 1999, Jufied Competition, Fuller’s Art Lodge, Los Alamos, NM
1997-1998   Waxlander Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1997   Expressions in Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1996   Art Resources, Birmingham, MI
1994   Raleigh Gallery, DCOTA, Miami, FL; Seventh Annual Juried Competition: Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
1993   Boca Raton Museum of Art
1992   Fifth Annual Juried Competition: Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
1991   Brooks Museum of Art: Art Today Benefit Exhibition, Memphis, TN; Southern Exposure: Juried Competition, Germantown, TN; Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989   Richard’s Gallery, Memphis, TN
1988   Senior Exhibit, Memphis College of Art; Fiber Exhibit, Memphis College of Art
1986   Third Place, Print Show, Malone and Hyde, Memphis, TN; Fiber Exhibit, Memphis College of Art
1985   University Gallery, Memphis State University

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Four Seasons, Denver, CO
Vedder Price, Chicago, IL
Edgewater Plaza, Chicago, IL
Hardin’s Sysco, Memphis, TN
International Paper, Germantown, TN
Wesley Manor, Atlanta, GA

PUBLICATIONS

TRADITIONAL HOME: March 2006 Show House Show Case
      “Unity II” by Rachel Darnell
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL NORTH, Gallery guide: Artfeast Feb, 2006,
      “Passion V” by Rachel Darnell
PASATIEMPO: THE NEW MEXICAN’S Weekly Magazine of the Arts: May 2-8, 2003,
      “La Luna” by Rachel Darnell
FOCUS SANTA FE: January - March 2003,
      “A Mystical Universe”: Rachel Darnell takes un into a spacious world.
IONS: NOETIC SCIENCE REVIEW: September - November 2001
      “Connecting Inner Assets”; “Soliel” by Rachel Darnell
NEW MEXICO MILLENIUM COLLECTION: A Twenty-First Century Celebration of Fine Art in New Mexico: 2000
      “La Reina de la Salsa” by Rachel Darnell
FOCUS SANTA FE: April - May 2000
      “A Spiritual Connection to an Ancient Past”: The woven canvas art of Rachel Darnell combines the expressiveness of painting with the primitive structure of weaving.