08/31/2026
August 31, 2012, by Helen Rae.
Back in the summer of 2022 we held “Helen Rae: Runway,” featuring fifteen previously unseen works by the California-based self-taught artist, who had passed away the year before.
Using fashion magazines as a jumping point, Rae transformed the world of high fashion and advertising into something uniquely expressive. described, “[Rae’s] tiny areas of carefully worked prismatic color refracting and playing off one another in tightly packed optical clusters transform and expand into larger constellations of shapes and spaces and then congeal once again into new wholes that mushroom with pictorial imagination.”
Helen Rae (1938 - 2021)
"August 31" (and detail), 2012
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
24.25 x 18.25 inches