Rachel Dauplaise

Rachel Dauplaise

Studio Art

Artist Biography: Rachel pools inspiration from her experiences in grade school to those in college, from her ideas of mortality, the challenge of climate change, the overbearing mortal ego, the feminist experience in the modern world, and exploring the deep realms of her sexuality. She wishes to challenge her viewer’s ideals and locate where their ideas stem from.

Rachel Dauplaise is a senior at Southern Arkansas University with a studio art degree. Rachel started a passion for art at a young age, with grandfathers each specializing in a different art form, as well as a father that encouraged Rachel to try new mediums. Rachel was encouraged to find love for something in life. That happened to be art.

Rachel went through school thinking that her passions lie in the wrong place and that it should be in art history. While Rachel’s teachers pushed for her to teach art history and her parents encouraged anything with a degree attached; Rachel would learn that if her passion was in art then she should pursue it. She found an interest for printmaking in high school, and this interest continued to college.

Rachel’s artistic influences are the artists Frida Kahlo and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Frida Kahlo influenced Rachel to see art in a different light, one that shows art doesn’t always have to look the same as. Lautrec inspired Rachel’s printmaking as well as the way she implements the LGBT+ community into her art.

Artist Statement:Rachel Dauplaise’s artwork is created primarily through printmaking. With the majority of prints being intaglio and lithographs. Rachel’s artwork is made conceptually to show broad ideas and her beliefs. Ergo, her artwork is made for a large audience, in which anyone that has opinions can be influenced by her work. Her work is aimed to make the audience question where their beliefs and ideals come from. Rachel pools inspiration from her experiences in grade school to those in college, from her ideas of mortality, the challenge of climate change, the overbearing mortal ego, the feminist experience in the modern world, and exploring the deep realms of her sexuality.

Rachel's Work

A Season in Hell, lithograph, 8.5 x 17
French Symbolism

French Symbolism is a series of lithographs based on French Symbolist poems by Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud.

Bloody Wednesday, acrylic painting, 24 x 30
It’s Just Blood

It’s just blood is a series of acrylic paintings.

Protection and motion, mixed media, 14 x 14
Ego and Nature

Ego and Nature is a series of intaglio prints, relief prints, and india ink drawings.

Snake and bulb, lithograph, 13 x 20
Snake and Bulb

Snake and bulb is a lithograph on stone.

Senior Capstone Presentation of Work