Museums, Miami
Vanessa Raw
This is How the Light Gets In
Rubell Museum2024 Artist-in-Residence Born in 1984 in Hexham, England, Raw lives and works in Margate, England, and her presentation at the Rubell Museum Miami marks her first exhibition in the United States as well as her first institutional show. In these newly commissioned, large-scale works, Raw’s distinctive layered brushwork and expressive use of color depict a dream-like, all-female world—an earthly paradise where the natural world is benevolent and sentient, and where female desire is central. A former triathlete, Raw’s practiced mastery of her own body transfers to her work on canvas. Her figures are tranquil and at ease but have agency. They revel in the company of each other and in the landscape that is lush and soft and ripe with color—paradise found.