Rebecca Padilla-Pipkin
Rebecca Padilla-Pipkin is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator living and working in Phoenix, Arizona. After moving to the United States at age 10, she has lived a transient life and is influenced by the many places she has loved. Her work explores ecologies of place through a wide variety of site-specific materials and processes that index moments of interaction between the human and more-than-human. Ultimately, she strives to make work that deepens the care and attention we give to the places in which we dwell.
She received a BFA from the University of Oklahoma, and an MFA from Arizona State University. Her work has been exhibited through solo and group exhibitions which include shows in Arizona at the South Mountain Environmental Education Center, Tempe Center for the Arts, Eric Fischl Gallery, and the Institute for Desert Humanities; in Texas at the Greater Denton Arts Council; in Kansas at Mark Arts Gallery; and in Oklahoma at the Lightwell Gallery. Her work has been generously supported through many opportunities, including the Osher Life-Long Learning Grant, the City of Tempe’s Studio Artist Residency, and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Residency (Summer 2024).
Rebecca Pipkin, Reciprocal Capture, 18 ft x 4 ft, 2022
Rebecca Pipkin, How Many Make A Heap (rocks and baskets), 18ft x 7ft, 2023
Rebecca Pipkin, Erosion Paths From East Facing Slope-July and November, Approx 12ft x 4ft (2), 2022
Rebecca Pipkin, Process Shot, 2022
Rebecca Pipkin, Traces of Intervention (ecotones), Varying Sizes, 2023
Rebecca Pipkin, to take a note to draw a rock to sit in a hole, 48 in x 36 in, 2022
Emerging Artist Program:
This project is supported in part by
New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs,
and by the National Endowment for the Arts.
