Rebecca Niederlander’s sculptures and site-specific installations are data visualizations of the ephemeral in life. Her labor-intense abstractions use repetition and the inherent nature of the materials to address the individual’s position within the larger intergenerational community; as well as the micro and macro nature of ego, and ego’s relationship to the necessities of solitude and boredom in the creation of individual thought. She also co-founded the social practice BROODWORK in which she curated, wrote, and designed actions and objects that explored the interweaving of the creative practices and family life—in particular, parenthood. She is married with one son.

Artist's Statement:
Mary Oliver wrote that “attention is the beginning of devotion.” In my practice I am a responsible devotee. Wood, paper, wire, plastic, whatever. Complicated individual elements are brought together precariously; they connect, stressed by gravity and tension. Completely responsible for each other, the more precarious these elements, the more their own mortality and their response to the stressors of existence mimics our own fleeting moments. As a materialist in the truest sense of the word, I interrogate these materials lovingly and with compassionate care. I stand there with you, be it in person or in spirit, imagining that we both saw the little place where specs of dust had made a home. For I am a spec of dust, as are you, but it is stardust. Every atom in our bodies came from a star that exploded. We are in the middle of our bodies, our families, our communities, the Milky Way.

At its essence: Things fall apart and reconnect. I document it.

2022

The Devil's Workshop, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA

2021

Angel of Repose, Terrain Biennial, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Resonation, Terrain Biennial, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Memories of El Monte Site-specific permanent installation honoring Art Laboe and the site of the El Monte Legion Hall, El Monte, CA

2016

Corona, Corona Site-specific permanent installation in private residence, Aspen, CO

2015

Community Engagement Plan for Antelope Valley Arts Outpost, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Project

BROODWORK: Mending and BROODWORK: Mending 2, (with Iris Anna Regn) Permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission

What Do I Care? Part 2, : a collaboration with the schools of Eagle Rock CA, Curve Line Space, LA, CA

2014

Axis Mundi Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO

What Do I Care? Part 1, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA

2013

Trajector Art Fair-Intermezzo. Brussles, Belgium. curator: Ken Pratt

Comprehensive Community Engagement Plan for High Desert Care Clinic, Los Angeles County Arts Commission

We are Stardust. We are Golden. And We Have to find our Way back to the Garden. Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

Magic Flute set design, Reporatory Opera Company, Pomona, CA

Heitzman, Lorraine Rebecca Niederlander: Wood is Everything, Art And Cake, June 29

Martinique, Elena, Artists As Parents, A New Iconography, Wide Walls, April 13

2019

Discussion host for “What’s In It for Me? Navigating a socially engaged creative life”, Virginia Katz’ Arts Discussion Group, ESLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Journey Agent Training public workshop at Brand Library and Gallery, Glendale, CA

building, Building, building blocks, Blocks, blocks: an afternoon of intergenerational wood fun public workshop at Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University, Burbank, CA

2015

Presenter at LA as LAB: Innovation in Arts & Culture Conference, Claremont Graduate University, Claremenot, CA

Presenter at MESC (Museum Educators of Southern California) Annual Meeting

Hexaflexaperfecta! public workshop at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2014

Artist-in-Residence, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA

Pre-approved artist, Los Angeles County Arts Commission for BROODWORK

Pre-approved artist, Los Angeles Metropolitain Transit Authority

Artist-in-Residence, Pilgrim School, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Artist, San Raphael Dual Emersion Elementary School, Pasadena, CA

Panelist, The Feminist Art Project at CAA, Chicago, IL

2013

Panelist, Colloquy: Parenthood in the Art World. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Art of the Journey TEDx talk at TEDxOlympicBlvd. Women

Pre-approved Public Engagement Artist, Los Angeles County Arts Commission