Rebecca Kilpatrick

Biography
Rebecca Kilpatrick will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Toledo in spring of 2002. She has a double major of Art History and Drawing, with a minor in Printmaking. Her professional work to date has been diverse in artistic media.

Beginning in October of 2000, Rebecca began a series of public installations involving media such as ice, bicycle wheels, and a fifty-four foot curtain of sheer fabric. These installations were on exhibit on the property of the Toledo Museum of Art and the University of Toledo Lake Erie Research Center.

In September 2001, she assisted sculptor Miguel Romero in the completion of the original clay frog used in the Toledo, Ohio It's Reigning Frogs campaign.

In May of the same year, Rebecca spent some time in Italy studying the art, architecture, and culture. Upon her return from Italy, she completed three watercolor commissions for private collectors.

Rebecca is currently preparing for her Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition, which will take place this coming spring in the University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts gallery.

Statement
This series of montages is the act of preserving memories and nearly lost thoughts. To firmly grasp memory is difficult since even as you are in the act of remembering your perceptions are altering the information.

To each individual, memory is a singularly personal experience. As time progresses perceptions change and the memory degrades. Details slip into the unconscious and are not recalled. The act of chasing memories is a bit like tripping around in the dark.

However, difficult to grasp as it is, memory is ultimately a defining force in out actions both presently and in the future. To deny the impact of memory is to deny your own history, and to refuse to validate your own perceptions.

These artworks are a visible declaration of that which springs from the mind. By which, in seeing the part you gain a better perception of the whole.