Rachel Beach is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Waterloo ON, Canada. Her painted wood and aluminum sculptures combine elements of Minimalist thought and form with more diverse archeological and architectural influences. Ms. Beach received an MFA from Yale University and BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Recent awards and grants include a Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship, a Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop and a Canada Council for the Arts grant. Her work has been exhibited at Blackston, Lennon Weinberg and Mixed Greens in New York and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and PlugIn Institute of Contemporary Art in Canada. Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Interview, C Magazine and other publications.