Stories I'm Telling Myself
~ Rebecca Waring-Crane ~
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement
Story is my medium.
Navigating the terrain of experience and memory, I make sculptural objects and installations that render internal stories as external. I revisit and reshape stories I’m telling myself as a way to understand and find the humanity in them—the humor, awkwardness, bravery, shame, kindness, grief. Mine. Yours. Ours.
My storytelling transforms familiar objects—measuring cups, a dress, a swing— a little, or a lot, to posit fresh perspective, thwart expectations, and discomfit quick conclusions.
Believing that what is most personal is most universal, each work invites viewers to ask themselves Have I ever felt like this? And What is the story I’m telling myself?
Rebecca Waring-Crane
Family Portrait
2020
Glass measuring cups, polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
Dimensions Vary
Rebecca Waring-Crane
Swing: Learning the Cost of Self-Knowing & Pleasure
2020
Metal pipe & tube, metal chain, wood, glass, fiberglass insulation, soap, cardboard, cotton sheet, aluminum
124" x 85" x 84"
Rebecca Waring-Crane
Disorganized Attachment
2020
Oak dresser drawers, mixed media
47" x 46" x 24"
Rebecca Waring-Crane
Trust Me, They're All The Same
2020
Mirror, 30 water glasses (varied size/shape), clear liquid
6" x 43.5" x 31.25"
Rebecca Waring-Crane
Family Tree
2020
Plywood (Baltic birch), wood (found stump)
40" x 42" x 42"
Rebecca Waring-Crane
Daily Sacrament: Communion With All Sinners And Saints
2017-2020
Glass (kiln cast), light box
8" x 86" x 3.5"
Rebecca Waring-Crane
Bringing All My Girls Home
2020
Digital print on jersey (organic cotton)