For the past decade Rachel Selekman has incorporated both watering cans and purse clasps into elegant sculptures that frequently suspend in space. With this suite she anthropomorphizes the watering can, a basic garden tool that enables plants to flourish indoors and out. Glittering streams of thread flow from a fecund, multi-spouted can, while a third rests on the floor with octopus-like tendrils reaching across the floor. Playful associations can be made between the spouts and putti fountain statuary or fertility statues. Located on the sun porch, a space that connects the indoors with the garden, her installation takes on a humorous tone suggesting that the tools have taken on a life of their own.

Rachel Selekman has had solo exhibitions at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY; Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany; and Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE. She has participated in group exhibitions at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Museo d'Arte, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia, among other places. She received a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. http://www.priskajuschkafineart.com/artists/Rachel_Selekman/artwork/