Dr. Rebecca Anweiler

Biography

Rebecca Anweiler is a Kingston-based painter who completed her Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal in 2000 and is an honors graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. Over the past seven years, she has taught Drawing and Painting at Queen's University, and has previously taught at the University of Lethbridge and Concordia University. Anweiler is a recent recipient of grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Her artworks have been extensively exhibited in Toronto and Montreal, with her paintings included in public collections such as the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the City of Toronto, and the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. Anweiler's art practice involves subverting scientific bias by exposing the limitations of the field, incorporating research that requires the reinvention of existing theory. By appropriating imagery produced during particular historical moments, she repositions content using clever poetic juxtapositions that expose historical biases and current assumptions, often related to themes of sexuality, ecology, and biology. Her seductively rendered paintings challenge the viewer to explore representation and surface illusion.

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