About

Rachel Livedalen’s work considers representations of femininity throughout the aesthetics of pop culture, consumer products, and the art historic canon. Often juxtaposing academic texts and objects from art history with marks inspired by representations of contemporary “girl” culture, the artist combines two realms that are often kept strictly separate due to society’s hierarchal perception of importance. By referencing this historic visual imagery alongside the cultural ephemera from her adolescence (such as stickers, makeup palettes, ephemeral trinkets, or doodle-like drawings), she shifts …