Rebecca E H Gordon

Born: August 28, 1983, Boston, MA

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Contact

E-mail: rehgordon (at) gmail.com

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. M.A., Visual and Critical Studies, M.F.A., Fiber and Material Studies
2007 - 2010 (forthcoming)
Hampshire College, B.A. Philosophy/Visual Arts
2001 - 2005
The Cambridge School of Weston
1997 - 2001

Second Gallery, Boston MA. Founder and Director
2005 - 2007
www.secondgallery.org
Gallery TK, Northampton, MA. Director
2004-2005

Abandoned Plot, curated by Andy Meerow. Key Foods Parking Lot, Calyer and McGuiness, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. June 2008.
Discipline Problems. Curated by Joseph Grigely. Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL. Spring 2008.
Open Studios, The Distillery, Boston, MA. October 2005 and May 2006. www.distilleryboston.com
The Summer of the Rainbow Braid. Gallery TK, Northampton, MA. August 2005
The Nook. Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Hampshire College. May 2005
Noble Stitches (group). Gallery TK. July 2004.

Installation and performance with Kevin Driscoll. Samson Projects, Boston MA. July 6th, 2007

"Wind and Wave" Performance with Xavier Cha's Horn of Plenty. Taxter Spengemann Gallery, NY, New York. April 21st, 2006
Performance at Great Scott, Allston MA. December 30, 2004
"Megamix" Robert Melee's Talent Show. The Kitchen. New York, NY. June 2004
Summer Tours: 2003 and 2004. 50+ performances at galleries, music venues, stores, and homes throughout The USA and Canada
Performance at The Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, MA. December 31, 2003
www.memoriesforever.org

"Space Refigured." Interventions and Objects. New work by Bebe Beard and Liz Nofziger. The New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University. Catalog Essay. 25-29 pp. Spring 2008.
"The Taking Shape of Meaning, the Meaning that Takes Shape", essay in Apenest #2, 2008.
"Michael Bell Smith Talks to Rebecca Gordon." New York Arts Magazine. January 2008.
"Inhabiting Bodies: The Spatiality of Power." Hampshire College Thesis Project. 80 pp. May 2005
Presentation: "Inhabiting Bodies: The Spatiality of Power." (30 min.)The Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy, State University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL. http://conference2006.swapusa.org/ March 31, 2006

Instructor, Contemporary Art, Early College Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2008.
Teaching Assistant, Sculpture, Early College Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2008.
Teaching Assistant, Visual and Critical Studies Thesis I, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2007.
Teaching Assistant, Residential College Core Studio, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2007.
Supervisor of seven interns to Second Gallery, January 2006 - August 2007
Teaching Assistant, Philosophy of Race, Hampshire College, Fall 2004
Teaching Assistant, Intro. to Aesthetics, Hampshire College, Fall 2003

Intro to Adobe Illustrator. Fall 2005, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Research Assistant to Joseph Grigely, 2007-present
Consulting at Invivia, Cambridge, MA, May 2007
Artist/Research Assistant to Marisa Jahn, 2006-2007
Head judge of All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art, March 2007
Central organizer of South Boston Open Studios, South Boston, MA, October 7th and 8th 2005, November 4th and 5th, 2006
Volunteer at Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA. September 2005 - January 2006

The Boston Globe Magazine "Best of the New Awards", Best New Gallery of 2006 awarded to Second Gallery
New England Chapter of Association Internationale des Critiques d'art, the International Association of Art Critics. 2nd Place for Best Show in an Alternative Space for Liz Nofziger's Grate, Black Gold at Second Gallery. 2006
Hampshire College "Ingenuity Award" for work on Gallery TK, 2005

A Conversation with Rebecca Gordon, Matt Nash, Big Red and Shiny, Volume 65, June 2007
Everybody Dance; DIY Flyers are bringing back the party, Franklin Melendez, Soma Magazine, April 2007
Nature, from mysterious fantasy to stark reality; Art and Science, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, February 2007
Rapt in a Fine Web of Interactive Art, Unexpected Turns, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, December 2006
At Second Gallery, a colorful combination of culture and nature, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, October 2006
Pam Larson at Second Gallery, Matthew Gamber, Big RED and Shiny, Issue #47, August 2006
Aaron Brewer & Michael Mahalchick at Second Gallery, Ean Frick, Big Red and Shiny, Issue #44, June 2006
Installment Plan, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, April 2006
Forty Whacks: Goody-B. Wiseman Channels Lizzie Borden, Randi Hopkins, March 2006
We Made It at Second Gallery, Matt Nash, Big, Red, and Shiny, February 2006
We Made It: Ode to an American Yearn, Vanessa Cano, The Mass Media, February 2006
Cute Enough To Go On the Fridge, Meredith Goldstein, Boston Globe, January 2006
Dam Cute, Randi Hopkins, Boston Phoenix, January 2006
A tree of neon foam grows in Southie, Lissa Harris, Weekly Dig, January 2006