BIO
Rebecca Hoyer was born in Chicago but has moved about, living in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, New York and now Wichita. She studied Graphic Design at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and with Knox Martin at the Art Students League in New York.
Her practice is to abstract the chaos of the world into a simplified visual system that highlights the relation between the natural and the man-made. Since arriving in Wichita, she has been working with the local landscape, trying to identify what makes it both distinctive and beautiful. She paints familiar things — trees and houses — in a style that is both pastoral and radical.
A resident of Wichita’s College Hill neighborhood, Rebecca is an active member of the creative community. She recently completed two paintings commissioned by the Wichita Art Museum to promote their new Art Garden, and her work has taken up residence in the collections of the Wichita Center for the Arts, Emprise Bank, and the Kansas Health Foundation.
Working in both watercolor and oil, the essence of her art is the drawing. A scene is drawn numerous times as the framing is established and the individual elements arranged and elaborated. When the drawing is complete, she turns to the surface, experimenting with colors and textures until the work is complete. Variations are created as she commits the painting to different media.
New work can be seen in Wichita at Reuben Saunders Gallery, and in Manhattan (Kansas) at the Strecker Nelson West Gallery.
STATEMENT
The longer I paint, the more I realize
that for me, painting is seeing. When I begin
a painting, I look closely at the scene –
the patterns, the shapes, the relations
between objects. As I focus, the obvious falls
away. Subtle and interesting details emerge,
and eventually a completely new landscape
manifests itself – one that didn’t exist when
I started, that wouldn’t have existed had I
not started.
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REBECCA HOYER
4433 East First Street North, Wichita, Kansas 67208 • 316-761-2760 • www.rebeccahoyer.com
BIO:
1980 BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1983 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1986 Art Student’s League of New York
SOLO SHOWS:
2017 Bringing the Outside–Inside, Reuben Saunders Galllery, Wichita, Kansas
2014 Neighborhood, Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, Kansas
2013 Scenic Route, The Gallery at Artworks, Wichita, Kansas
2009 Tree – House, Steckline Gallery Newman University, Wichita, Kansas
2007 Urban Landscape, Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, Kansas
2006 Reinventing the Landscape, Cowley College, Earle N. Wright Room Gallery, Arkansas City, Kansas
2005 Hello, Neighbor, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 The Museum Show, Project, Wichita, Kansas
2003 City Views, Hesston College Gallery, Hesston, Kansas
2002 Beyond Wichita, Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, Kansas
2001 LandShapes, CityArts, Wichita, Kansas
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2017 Other Worlds, Strecker-Nelson-West Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2016 Avenue Art Days, Mural sponsored by Botanica, Wichita, Kansas
2016 National Small Oil Painting Exhibition 2016, Mark Arts, Wichita, Kansas
2015 Featured Artist, The Gallery at Artworks, Wichita, Kansas
2015 Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
2015 Outdoor Spaces, Butler County Community College, E. B. White Gallery, El Dorado, Kansas
2014 Clark Britton & Rebecca Hoyer, The Gallery at Larksfield Place, Wichita, Kansas
2014 Watercolor: Delicate Beauty from a Difficult Medium, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2013 Joe’s Swan Show, CityArts, Wichita, Kansas
2013 Contemporary Regonalists, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2012 Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
2012 UrbanScapes, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2011 Brücke Nicht Weit, Butler County Community College, E. B. White Gallery, El Dorado, Kansas
2010 Fluidity, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2010 Featured Artist, The Gallery at Artworks, Wichita, Kansas
2009 Kansas Masters Invitational, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2008 Visual Discourse, Start-Thinking and KMUW, Wichita, Kansas
2007 Cutting Edge Traditionalists, CityArts, Wichita, Kansas
2007 The Illusion of Reality, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2007 XX3: Fisch Haus Annual Invitational, Fisch Haus, Wichita, Kansas
2007 Kansas Masters Invitational, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2006 Art for the Cure: Survivor Celebration, CityArts, Wichita, Kansas
2006 Community: An Urban Landscape Exhibit, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2004 Conversations With Earth and Sky, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
2003 Revisited, an ACAAK Invitational, Hays Arts Center, Hays, Kansas
2003 Artists of Note, Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, Kansas
2001 Post No Realism, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2000 7 State Watercolor Exhibition, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
2000 Natürlich, Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, Kansas
2000 2 Years Without a Theme, Acme Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
1998 Grand Opening, cofounded co-op gallery in downtown Wichita, Acme Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
1994 Small Oil Painting Competition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
1994 Kansas Artists’ Postcard Series XVII, Baker Arts Center, Liberal, Kansas
1989 Four Women Artists, White Gallery, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2001 Kansas Arts Commission Mini Fellowship
2000 Kansas Watercolor Society Cash Award
PUBLICATIONS:
2017 “Wichita artist's College Hill paintings return, with twist”, Matt Riedl, Wichita Eagle, Wichita, KS, March 31
2016 “Featured Artist”, The Journal, Wichita, Kansas, Summer
2015 “Art Garden Imagined”, WAM Views, Wichita, Kansas, September-October
2015 “Art Garden Grand Opening”, ArtNews, New York, NY, September
2009 “This Modern House”, Barry Ownes, College Hill Commoner, Wichita, Kansas, April
2007 “New ways to familiar paths”, Chris Shull, Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas, December 21
2002 “Color wheels”, Chris Shull, Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas, December 13
2001 “Artist’s work showcases city”, Chris Shull, Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas, August 3
2001 “Disparity at Dirt Gallery: Welcome Wichita”, Heather Lustfeldt, Review, Kansas City, Kansas, March
COLLECTIONS:
Mark Arts - The Mary R Koch Arts Center
The Emprise Bank Collection
The Wichita Art Museum