2015-Present

"After"
"After"

Acrylic, spray paint // 6ft x 4ft

[Available]
"gravity as my witness"
"gravity as my witness"

Acrylic, spray paint // 2.5ft x 2.5ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"The imprecision of feeling"
"The imprecision of feeling"

Acrylic, spray paint // 3ft x 4ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"Transient"
"Transient"

Acrylic, spray paint // 4ft x 3ft

[Available]
"Feels like home"
"Feels like home"

Acrylic, spray paint // 5ft x 3ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"Leaving"
"Leaving"

Acrylic, spray paint // 3ft x 3ft

[Available]
"Saltwater days"
"Saltwater days"

Acrylic, spray paint, iron oxide // 5ft x 4 ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"How strange it is to be anything at all"
"How strange it is to be anything at all"

Acrylic, spray paint // 4ft x 4ft

[Available]
"Neither from nor towards"
"Neither from nor towards"

Acrylic, spray paint // 6ft x 4ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"Onward, upward"
"Onward, upward"

Acrylic, spray paint // 4ft x 2.5ft

[unavailable - private collection]
"The beginning"
"The beginning"

Spray paint, acrylic // 7ft x 4ft

[Available]
"To recover what has been lost"
"To recover what has been lost"

Acrylic, spray paint // 4ft x 5ft

[Available]
"Waiting on a miracle"
"Waiting on a miracle"

Acrylic, spray paint // 4ft x 4ft

[Available]
"Nothing could have stopped this"
"Nothing could have stopped this"

Acrylic, spray paint // 4ft x 3ft

[Available]
"Deep silver sleep"
"Deep silver sleep"

Acrylic, spray paint on wood panel // 2ft x 1.5ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"All at once"
"All at once"

Acrylic, spray paint // 2ft x 2ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"To be the cause of things"
"To be the cause of things"

Acrylic, spray paint, iron oxide // 7ft x 5ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"Storm bloom"
"Storm bloom"

Iron oxide, acrylic, spray paint, charcoal // 6ft x 4ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"The tide will take us"
"The tide will take us"

acrylic, graphite, iron oxide, spray paint // 4ft x 3ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"All the time there is"
"All the time there is"

acrylic, spraypaint, graphite // 6ft x 4ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"The upheaval"
"The upheaval"

Iron oxide, acrylic, spray paint // 7ft x 4ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"What remains"
"What remains"

Acrylic, iron oxide, spray paint // 4.5ft x 6ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"This energy is borrowed"
"This energy is borrowed"

Acrylic, spray paint // 4ft x 3ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]

2014-2013

"Oceanless"
"Oceanless"

Iron oxide, pastel, spray paint on muslin

7ft x 7ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"In the stillness between two waves"
"In the stillness between two waves"

relief print, iron oxide, copper compounds, trace monotype

8ft x 3ft 

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"Of what we cannot hold"
"Of what we cannot hold"

iron oxide, spray paint, charcoal, copper compounds

6ft x 4ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"But I asked for the sea"
"But I asked for the sea"

iron oxide, copper compounds, pastel, charcoal

7ft x 7fr

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"Strange miracles"
"Strange miracles"

iron oxide, spray paint, charcoal on unstretched fabric 

7ft x 7ft

[available]
"This way"
"This way"

iron oxide, charcoal, spray paint, pastel on muslin

6ft x 4ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]
"Captured"
"Captured"

iron oxide, relief print, pastel on muslin

[unavailable] 
"Before morning"
"Before morning"

Relief print, iron oxide, copper compounds

2ft x 1.5ft

[Unavailable - Private Collection]

2012-2011

Ash
Ash

relief print, fumage, charcoal on muslin

4ft x 4ft

[Unavailable]
Synapse
Synapse

Relief print, collaged fabric, charcoal, spraypaint

4ft x 4ft

[Unavailable]
Chainsaw Study I
Chainsaw Study I

Relief print on muslin

4ft x 4ft

[unavailable]
Chainsaw Study II
Chainsaw Study II

Relief print on muslin

4ft x 4ft

[unavailable]
Arch
Arch

relief print, charcoal on muslin

9ft x 9ft

[unavailable]
"Years"
"Years"

relief print

2ft x 2.5ft

[unavailable - private collection]
"Fragment I"
"Fragment I"

Relief print

5ft x 3ft

[unavailable]
"Fragement II"
"Fragement II"

relief print

5ft x 3ft

[unavailable]

Installation Views

"Traces"
"Traces"

Two person show featuring paintings by Rachel Baxter and sculptural works by Mary Pat Wager at The Arts Center of the Capital Region  (2015)
"Traces"
"Traces"

Two person show featuring paintings by Rachel Baxter and sculptural works by Mary Pat Wager at The Arts Center of the Capital Region  (2015)
"Traces"
"Traces"

Two person show featuring paintings by Rachel Baxter and sculptural works by Mary Pat Wager at The Arts Center of the Capital Region  (2015)
"Embracing Entropy"
"Embracing Entropy"

MFA Thesis Exhibition at The Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (2014)
"Embracing Entropy"
"Embracing Entropy"

MFA Thesis Exhibition at The Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (2014)
"Embracing Entropy"
"Embracing Entropy"

MFA Thesis Exhibition at The Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (2014)
"The upheaval" installed
"The upheaval" installed

NY
"To be the cause of things" installed
"To be the cause of things" installed

NY

Process

setteling into the new studio - Troy, NY 2016

setteling into the new studio - Troy, NY 2016
"You are here, too" Public Art Project - Albany, NY
"You are here, too" Public Art Project - Albany, NY

working on a mural in downtown Albany, NY 2016 in collaboration with Albany Center Gallery and the Downtown Albany BID
Albany, NY studio 2015

Albany, NY studio 2015
cutting woodblock material from a fallen tree - Bloomington, IN 2013

cutting woodblock material from a fallen tree - Bloomington, IN 2013
Preparing to print - Bloomington, IN 2015

Preparing to print - Bloomington, IN 2015
"foot printing" - Bloomington, IN 2013

"foot printing" - Bloomington, IN 2013
Finishing touches on an 8ft x 8ft mixed media piece - Bloomington, IN 2012

Finishing touches on an 8ft x 8ft mixed media piece - Bloomington, IN 2012

Public

"The River that Flows in Two Directions"
"The River that Flows in Two Directions"

"The River that Flows in Two Directions" is Baxter's most recent Public mural in Downtown Albany. Funded by the Albany Parking Authority and their partnership with Albany Center Gallery and The Barn, Baxter painted this 85 foot long mural on a retaining wall of Interstate 787 southbound (Water St. & Columbia) Read more about the project HERE 
"You are here, too"
"You are here, too"

Baxter is pictured in front of a mural she completed as a public art project in downtown Albany, NY 2016 in collaboration with Albany Center Gallery and the Downtown Albany BID

Downtown Albany BID story

Time Warner Cable News story
"You are here, too"
"You are here, too"

Baxter being interviewed about her mural in Downtown Albany, NY - "You are here, too" a public art project that the artist hoped would help residents and visitors feel more connected to their surroundings.

Downtown Albany BID story

Time Warner Cable News story

 
"Storm bloom" Troy Night Out, Troy, NY 2016
"Storm bloom" Troy Night Out, Troy, NY 2016

A group show of local artists curated by Chip Fasciana at Pecks Arcade, Troy, NY
Experimental Drawing Workshop [Herron School of Art and Design Indianapolis, Indiana]
Experimental Drawing Workshop [Herron School of Art and Design Indianapolis, Indiana]

Rachel Baxter has done various workshops across the US, working with both students and the public to broaden their understand of what art is and can be through experimental techniques such as "fumage" seen here. 
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