Rachelle Sawatsky

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In July, we welcome Rachelle Sawatsky to speak on the work of Ser Serpas.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Rachelle Sawatsky is an artist based in Vancouver and Los Angeles known primarily for their abstract paintings that explore materiality, lyricism, and instability both perceptual and structural. Sawatsky’s ongoing writing practice takes the form of ceramics, drawings and parallel texts as a means to explore practices of description and observation. 

Recent solo exhibitions include Night Gallery and Artist Curated Projects in Los Angeles and the Western Front Gallery in Vancouver. Their work has been included in group exhibitions, at Moran Moran in Los Angeles, the Tate St. Ives, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Galerie Mezzanin in Vienna. Their artwork has been written about in Artforum, Frieze, Art Review, Canadian Art and the LA Times. Their writing has been published in numerous publications including catalogues by the Hammer Museum, Artspeak Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Night Gallery, the Capilano Review and BookWorks UK. Sawatsky is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University. 

 Portrait of Rachelle Sawatsky standing outside in a black t-shirt and gold chain with their hands in their pockets.

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Rachelle Sawatsky

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