About:
R. Scheer is an artist and educator living and working between Philadelphia and Providence. They received their MFA in painting and drawing from Tyler School of Art in 2023. Rita has exhibited work at spaces that include Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn (forthcoming), InLiquid's Park Towne Place in Philadelphia, The Cherry Arts Gallery in Ithaca, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and Abigail Ogilvy in Boston. For the summer of 2024, they have been awarded a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship to spend time as an artist-in-residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY.
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Flickering between the structures of painting and weaving, Rita Scheer brings a fantastic wish into existence, to mend our palpable alienation from the processes that hold components together (such as hinging, tying, threading, and felting).
They look toward the loom and the greenhouse, tools that carry and bring forth many histories of exploitation, as frameworks that have the potential to be collapsible or repurposed. Both the loom and greenhouse have structural processes that allow material to flow, and when in conversation in Scheer’s work, they offer a way to consider the house as a multitude of channels that help make themselves.