RHarvey

Rebecca Harvey was born in Columbus, Ohio and currently lives and works in Helena, Montana. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work revolves around questions of the domestic and posits of a way of looking at decorative art that reveals hidden fears and desires. She is particularly interested in how collective ideas shape and mold our perceptions of the world and how these new perceptions are reflected in the environments we construct for ourselves. Her work is based in the residue, both physical and intangible, of objects.

Project-based sculptural work reflects the implications of place on process and materials as well as the sea of image and meaning that forms the ways that objects carry, create, and compound meaning. Numerous awards include several Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, Greater Columbus Arts Council Award and International residencies in countries from Sweden to China, Canada to Italy and Iceland to Germany. She regularly writes about the intertwined histories of the decorative arts, and articles featuring her work have appeared in Studio Potter and American Craft.