Rachel Rossin

Rachel Rossin
Born	1987 West Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality	American

Rachel Rossin (born 1987, West Palm Beach, Florida) is a multi-media and installation artist based in New York City.

Rossin has said that her first gallery experience at the age of 16 profoundly impacted her. Her mother brought her to the Whitney Museum of American Art where she was attracted to Kiki Smith’s wax figures. Rossin says: “I hated them and I loved them because they were both repulsive and tender. These feelings kept competing and rolling over each other for the front of my mind. ”

In 2015, Rossin’s exhibition, N=7/The Wake in Heat of Collapse, located at SIGNAL in New York, New York, was a virtual reality simulation that employs the structure of side-scrolling gameplay to create an immersive, Oculus Rift-based experience. Additionally, in 2015, Rossin held her work, Shelter of a Limping Substrate, at the Elliott Levenglick Gallery. Shelter of a Limping Substrate refers to the underlying layer in 3D imaging. She created formal en plein air paintings, which then were reimagined in virtual reality CAD software.

From October 15—November 14, 2015, Rachel held her work, Lossy, at the ZieherSmith, a contemporary art gallery in New York City. In Rossin’s words: “The exhibition posits that our relationship with reality isn't comprised of a separate virtual and real but looks more like a gradient between the two— with most of our modern lives being lived in the action of hopping from screen to screen. Like lossy compression, this process includes entropy as an inherent given— in optimizing what already exists by omitting the excess in worlds with their own internal logic.”

From December 9, 2016—January 15, 2017, the exhibition, My Little Green Leaf was held in partnership with Art in General and kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia. The installation piece interweaves the viewers interactive experience with virtual reality and physical space.

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