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

Mom

2020

Bronze, ladder-back chair

41" x 25" x 24"

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Family Portrait

2020

Glass measuring cups, polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

Dimensions Vary

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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"

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Disorganized Attachment

2020

Oak dresser drawers, mixed media

47" x 46" x 24"

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Trust Me, They're All The Same

2020

Mirror, 30 water glasses (varied size/shape), clear liquid

6" x 43.5" x 31.25"

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Family Tree

2020

Plywood (Baltic birch), wood (found stump)

40" x 42" x 42"

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Daily Sacrament: Communion With All Sinners And Saints

2017-2020

Glass (kiln cast), light box

8" x 86" x 3.5"

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Bringing All My Girls Home

2020

Digital print on jersey (organic cotton)

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