ABOUT

Rebecca Raubacher was born and raised in Wilmington Delaware and graduated from Maryland College of Art and Design with a certificate in Studio Fine Arts. Rebecca and her husband Chris Raubacher, owned and operated The Raubacher Gallery in Dover Delaware for thirty years. The couple now resides in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. 

Raubacher first picked up a pencil and paper after her older sister took her to a horse farm at age three and a half. The artist believed that if she could draw the experience she could own it. Working with figures, portraits or the natural world, Raubacher brings psychological tensions through layering materials that traditionally do not work together such as oil stick, oil paint, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, conte’ crayon, torn paper, metallic markers, acrylic paint and chalk pastels, creating a surface tension that compliments  the subject and composition. The artist uses line to catch the subject’s character and movement. The layering of mediums builds the psychological tensions in the composition. Raubacher puts humanizing elements in natural world subjects and animal elements in human subjects.

Rebecca Raubacher’s work can be found in the Delaware Art Museum, The Biggs Museum of American Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bank of America, United States Embassy collection, NYEX, the State of Delaware and Delaware State University.

 

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“As a child, I believed that if I could draw something, I could somehow own it. Now, I feel like the work owns me. The art of drawing has reached in and pulled this work, like a secret from my core, and then delivered it to me, allowing others viewing it to bring their own stories.”

“Drawing or painting begins with a mark, a line, a gesture and moves on to tell a story. I allow the mark to speak to me. There are no preliminary drawings or preconceived layouts, just the movement of the mark across the blank surface, letting the composition emerge. Keeping my cognizant self at bay allows the composition to develop naturally from my instinctual being.”

“An environment envelops the figures, often including symbolic forms, colors, and values. The composition welcomes the viewer to move into the painting and enter the story.”

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