Rebecca Naegele is an artist who works in sculpture, installation, video and photography. Her work is informed by cultural and spatial symptoms of neoliberalism, consumerism and technological advance. Rebecca's process is grounded in observation and an experiential translation of life under late capitalism. Her work materializes a visual and material language of economic precarity through disrupted viewership, instability, and collapsing visual space. Speculative value, infrastructure, architecture and duration are guiding structures that inform her work. Videos explore notions of progress through cyclic repetition, repeated attempts without resolution, and mechanisms of surveillance. Site-related installation, video, sculpture, and photographic works emphasize the position of the viewer while destabilizing the urban landscape and its sites of labor and consumption.
Rebecca lives and works in New York City. She received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and was a Graduate Student Lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia in 2019-2020. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program's Studio Program in New York, NY in 2016-17 and Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Art in 2011. Recent exhibitions include EFA Project Space, New York, NY; Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA; Pilot+Projects, Philadelphia, PA; Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; 3A Gallery, New York, NY; 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY.