Rachel Steely

One cannot visit the Netherlands without coming across Vincent Van Gogh, there is even a museum named after him. On my second day in the Netherlands, my aunt, Karen Limkeman, and I went to a little city outside of Eindhoven called Nuenen...

I remember more then one science video that I watched as a child having a scene where something that took months to occur would be shown in a minute’s time. Technology allowed us to see changes that occurred slowly, quickly...

My day in Den Bosch began by going to the Bosch museum (Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands). The museum was small, but had a number of paintings by or in the same style as the famous artist from the city, Hieronymus Bosch...

The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands is designed with many protruding panels giving a room more wall space then it might otherwise have. While walking around the museum, I looked with anticipation around each protruding panel for the works of art that would be displayed in these alcoves...

While visiting the Stutz Artist Open House on Friday night, I got my temporary fill of art. Of all the artists that I saw that night, I am going to mention the following few: Caroline Mecklin, Derek Powell, Vicky Shaffer White, Mark Pack, and the artists in Suite B240...

First Friday for May is quickly approaching and there are several places around town that my art work can be found. I have one piece each in three group shows. Wug Laku is hosting his retrospective show Eye Music in his gallery, Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage...

There is a thread of thought that scoffs images, stories, and other communications which tell a story in a historically inaccurate way. Those who follow this thought pattern would tear apart Pieter Brueghel II’s Census at Bethlehem completed in 1605...

While walking through the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the painting, Jerusalem (Golgatha, Consummatum Est, Crucifixion) by Jean-Léon Gérôme caught my eye. It did not catch my eye because of the style, but due to the treatment of the subject...

Art has the power to teach us something new about the mundane in life. Sometimes art portrays the beautiful, sometimes the ugly...

April 3, 2009 - First Friday Gallery Hop Part I: Circle Center Industrial Complex This month had a pleasing array of good art shows in the downtown gallery scene of Indianapolis, Indiana. I started off my evening by visiting wUG LAKU’s STUDIO & gARAGE...

April 3, 2009 - Part III: Harrison Center for the Arts Time was running short and I went to the Harrison Center for the Arts as my last stop in the First Friday Hop. Here I met up with fellow Yarn Burners to play Bingo and create a square for our group project...

April 3, 2009 -Part II: Mass Ave I continued the First Friday art hop by traveling down Mass Ave to the McFee Gallery and Studio. The main artist shown this month is Kelly Gentry. Her work falls easy on the eye. There seems to be three related series of works...

I found this interesting sculpture, Circular Road by Robert Long, in the Kröller-Müller Museum last September (2008). It is a simple abstract sculpture that has a name which guides the viewer’s interpretation of the abstract form...

Recently, I finished the first three experimental paintings of Butterflies. Last autumn, I raised 12 Painted Lady Butterflies. I studied these beautiful little creatures as they developed from larvae, to caterpillars, to cocoons, to butterflies...

Currently, my recent work is displayed close to home for all my Kentucky friends and fans...

I am posting three new eggshell paintings in series, Morning Promise. Although the majority of the painting was done last fall I have recently added the final layers to three new eggshell paintings. These paintings are similar to the eggshell painting that was posted in November...

While wondering through Het Rembrandthuis Museum, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last autumn, a painting caught my eye...

While in The Hague, Netherlands last autumn, I took a few hours to look into the Escher Museum (Escher in het Paleis or Escher in the Palace). In the past I have not regarded M.C. Escher too highly, consequently I was surprised at how much I enjoyed seeing the work...

This past fall I had the opportunity to see several early Piet Mondrian paintings in the Gemente Museum (The Hague, The Netherlands)...

Images, photographs, visual advertisements, logos, and even “fine art”. We are bombarded with pieces of visual communication. In each image, there is a message. However, there are so many images that we become numb to them...

The Harrison Center for the Arts is having its annual color-themed holiday show, this Friday, 6 to 10pm. This year’s show is brown, so you know that I would want to participate...

One thing that the flowers lack is the kind of texture that I enjoy bringing out in a painting. Therefore, I have been investigating other objects that have textures similar to bones. I thought about other objects that served to strengthen and protect like bones...

As I leave behind the subject of bones, I am investigating several other venues of interest. One idea is not new, but a continuation of the flower series that I keep coming back to. I have posted two new works Foreshadowing and Three Stages...

This was the premier of this painting series, and I was very excited about the event. I met Wug while I served on the planning committee for Elegant Funk, a group art show by members of Smaller Indiana in August...

Up until now you have probably only seen two or four of this series in person. This is the entire series. That’s 10 paintings! I am excited about being the featured 2-D artist at this show. If you are coming, please reply below or confirm on the Facebook event page...

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I will be showing a piece in VisualFringe 2008 at The Kuaba Gallery. The Kuaba Gallery is in the last strip of shops on Massachusetts Avenue going away from Downtown. The opening reception is August 1, 2008...

I will be showing two of my recent “moving joint of bone” paintings on August 1st at Elegant Funk. The group show featuring 20 to 30 artists from Central Indiana will be a part of IDADA’s monthly First Friday gallery hop...

Below are Photographs from the Wheeler Arts Community Spring Open House. Special thanks to Katie Burk for making the event happen.

As part of your upcoming First Friday ritual, be sure to stop by the Wheeler Arts Community. They are having their annual Spring Open House this May 2nd...

Natural substances, both great and small, reflect similarities that are noticeable upon reflection.  The other night as I was studying the texture of the bone in front of me, I pondered upon how the cragginess of the bone was reminiscent of a rocky mountain in a landscape.  How the mountain hid a...