Home \ Away
A Mother & Daughter Collaboration
Mother and daughter, Suzanne Siegel and Rachel Siegel, create a series of postcard size pieces through the mail. Preliminarily, each artist created artwork based on the themes of domestic spaces and travel places. They then mailed each other 5x7 inch drawings, collages or photographs, manipulated them, sometimes adding, paint, stitching and other elements and sent them back, sometimes for another round of additions until each felt completed.
Suzanne started her set of images with drawings of chairs, documenting almost all the chairs in her house. Rachel focused her imagery on photographs of architecture, clouds or water from her recent travels to France and Italy. Other symbolic and potent feminine imagery emerged and overlapped, including, birds, butterflies and laundry.
Each respectively starting artwork based on the themes of domestic spaces and travel spaces.
Chez Shaw Gallery
This project deserves special thanks to the people who have supported us:
Thank you to Lynn Shaw for providing us with this exhibition opportunity. It gave us a chance to collaborate on a series small mixed media pieces, entitled Home and Away.
The body of work was displayed at Chez Shaw Gallery in Long Beach, CA, October 2018 until January 2019. This collaboration was displayed, along with each artists’ solo work.
A couple viewing the Photographic series entitled, Pairs, by Rachel Siegel.