Biography

Rachel Mah is an abstracted realist artist born and currently living in Toronto, Canada. She revisits historical art forms and perceptions of art in order to impact those of the present through an understanding of the past. Her work conveys the life essence contained within her subject matter, unfiltered for the viewer's consumption.

Her work seeks to find balance between a raw, dynamic, expressive, abstract, painterly and restrained, detail-oriented, precise style of rendering. She primarily works with acrylic paint on canvas and drawing mediums on paper. Accessible to all viewers, her work is an aesthetic experience felt on a fundamental, instinctual emotional and physical level.

Mah's interest in art stems from her childhood fascination with animated television shows and movies at the age of five. Her interest resulted to her enrolment in formal art lessons that she attended until sixteen years old. She was accepted into a specialized high school arts program called, the Claude Watson Program at Earl Haig Secondary School where she majored in visual art. Currently, the artist is studying at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada where she majors in art history and studio art with a minor in art education.

Currently, her artistic practice shifts from conceptualizing the themes addressed in her work exclusively from personal experience towards incorporating her art historian background. Rachel Mah integrates the analytic, research-based approach with writing academic papers to developing artistic choices. As art gains significance with time, the reference to history deepens the significance of the artwork's purpose outside of being an aesthetic object.