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Artist Exhibitions:
EXHIBITIONS:
UPCOMING: AUG 2010
• Suenos de Aztlan; Dreams of
Aztlan Following the Plumed
Serpent
Aug 2010
Flagstaff Photo Center,
Flagstaff,AZ
• Lasting Light : 125 years of
Grand Canyon Photography
Smithsonian traveling
exhibit
2008,2009
• Trappings of the American
West Museum of Northern
Arizona,Flagstaff
2008
• Festival De Paquime, , Casas
Grandes,...
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Artist Galleries:
Flagstaff Photography Center
Flagstaff,AZ 928.774.2544
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Artist Reviews:
Breaking Down Borders: Artist
Profile FLAGLIVE! OCT 2007
link:
http://www.flagstafflive.com/fl
agstafflive_story.cfm?storyID=1
60893&syr=2007
Like her love of the
photographic image, Raechel
Running’s latest exhibition at
the Flagstaff Photography
Center, “Lagrimas de Luz:
Tears of Light” is the product
of a lifelong accumulation of
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Collections:
Westin Keirland Resort
Scottsdale AZ
Aspey, Watkins & Diesel
Attorneys at Law Flagstaff AZ
Coconino County Superior Court
House Flagstaff AZ
Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
Flagstaff AZ
Northern AZ Book Festival
Flagstaff AZ...
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Commissions:
Westin Kierland Resorts,
Scottsdale AZ
Coconino County Superior Court
Chambers Flagstaff AZ
Aspey, Watkins, & Diesel ::
Attorneys at Law Flagstaff AZ
Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
Flagstaff AZ...
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Artist Statement for Raechel Running
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Freelance photographer, Raechel Marie Running, creates images that are more than just photographs. Her work is rooted in the tradition of documentary and portrait photography and serves as a foundation for her collage and multimedia pieces that are as diverse as her subjects and interests. She photographs friends and the people she meets along the way, who pose simply as themselves and sometimes are transformed through the creative nature of the imagination into archtypical images that explore the pathos and skewed beauty of the universal drama and diversity of the human soul.
Raechel continually draws inspiration from the visual influences of Impressionistic painters , Chicano art and other photographers and writers whose work has inspired her to walk the road less traveled. With her camera often serving as a passport, she explores the multifaceted world, recording her own experiences and impressions with pictures and scraps of memorabilia to make an eclectic record to serve as reference for her art. She combines hand painting and Polaroid transfers with a variety of mixed media to make elaborately embellished collages full of the vibrant colors of her multicultural heritage that pay homage to Beauty.
Raechel, of Trinidadian and American descent grew up in the mountain community of Flagstaff in Northern Arizona. She studied art at The California College of Arts and Crafts in the San Francisco Bay Area.and later spent a number of years in the Caribbean on the obscure islands between the Turks and Caicos and Vieques, Puerto Rico where she lived until Hurricane Hugo blew her back to the Southwest. Assignments and the quest for adventure, have taken her to major cities across the United States, to La Grave, a small mountain village in the French Alps, and road trips through Morocco and Mexico. She also works as a riverguide at the bottom of Grand Canyon. Presently, she shares a studio in downtown Flagstaff with her father, lifetime mentor and colleague, photographer John Running whom she collaborates with time to time.
Raechel work also includes corporate and editorial clients. Her photographs are published internationally and have appeared in British and China GQ magazines, The British Telegraph, Newsweek Japan, Native Artist, Smithsonian Air and Space, Polo, Mountain Freak, W.I.G. and Plateau magazines. Her commercial work includes CD cover art for Canyon Records, corporate annual reports and author portraits including those of Quincy Troupe, James Lee Burke, Luis Rodriguez and Demetria Martinez. She has exhibited in San Francisco, New York, and the Southwest and is currently promoting her fine art work on the web.
Raechel’s photographs bear witness, a mirror to behold for those interested in looking and learning, a shared exploration, a testament to a life influenced by the diversity and the beauty of our humanity through her camera’s eye. Memories, collaborations, moments that ask to be remembered.
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