Rachel Guardiola
Biography
Rachel Guardiola is an interdisciplinary artist, naturalist, and educator with a studio practice that explores the human relationship to wilderness through analog and digital lens-based technology. Rachel works between field and studio where environmental realities become a jumping off point for other earths, constructed non-anthropocentric topographies. Her work is inspired by the intersection of science-fiction, eco-feminism, and technology, utilizing the fantastic as a tool for reimagining alternative histories and ecological futures. Rachel has exhibited work internationally and has participated in numerous artist in residence programs. She received an MFA in Multidisciplinary Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art and BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Rachel served as an Environmental Education Extension Agent for Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa. She has been teaching the expanded possibilities of photography and related media for fifteen years and is particularly interested participating in and creating spaces that merge visual art and science.
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