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Portfolio

A selection of projects moving between drawing, animation, experimental 3D, augmented and virtual reality, video, and installation.

Portfolio

The Shape of What Remains from Seen and Unseen

Seen and Unseen

A body of work based on walks around Folsom Lake, where changing water levels reveal and conceal layered histories, submerged infrastructure, and traces of a vanished ecology.

Drawing · Mixed media · Print
Elsewhere, 2021, Rachel Clarke

Elsewhere

A solo exhibition exploring loss, displacement, and altered perceptions of familiar spaces through digital drawings, video, augmented reality, and a virtual environment.

Virtual and augmented reality · Drawing
Parallel, 2020, Rachel Clarke

Parallel

A time-based work moving between parallel states of image, space, and perception.

Digital video
Threads soundwalk artwork

Threads

An audio walk drawn from travel and encounters with people whose stories reveal personal, political, and environmental realities.

Soundwalk · Audio
The End and the Beginning virtual reality artwork

The End and the Beginning

A virtual-reality sound garden connecting prehistoric and contemporary worlds to the sixth mass extinction and climate change.

Virtual reality · Sound
Form Constants augmented reality drawing

Form Constants

A series of augmented-reality drawings that use AR to reveal the “mind’s eye,” making invisible phenomena visible.

Augmented reality · Drawing
Passage digital drawing

Passage

Prompted by environmental concerns, Passage is a journey through the ancient past and the possible future.

Drawing · 3D Animation
Undertow projection-mapped animation

Undertow

A 3D projection-mapped animation exploring the contradictory force of something that pulls things into its influence.

3D animation · Projection
Dam video artwork

Dam

Dam amplifies reflections in water to create a transformative burst of visual energy.

Video · Installation
Still from Qi, an animated video

Qi

A five-minute animated video created in response to a first visit to China.

Animation · Video
Merging Spaces augmented-reality work

Merging Spaces

A series of virtual sculptures that combine physical and virtual modes of making.

Augmented reality · Sculpture
Broadway Augmented augmented reality sculpture

Broadway Augmented

Two augmented-reality sculptures created for a virtual public-art project in Broadway, Sacramento.

Augmented reality · Public art
Still from Terra Incognita, an animated video

Terra Incognita

A ten-minute animated video of deconstructed road-atlas imagery.

Animation · Video
Nowhere augmented reality artwork

Nowhere

Created for the v1b3 project AR2 View, an augmented-reality catalog launched at the CAA Annual Conference in New York.

Augmented reality · Drawing
Push and Pull augmented reality sculpture

Push and Pull

Created for Flatlanders on the Slant at the Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis.

Augmented reality · Sculpture
Plexus sound installation

Plexus

Exhibited in Seeing Sound, a group show at the Pence Gallery in Davis, California.

Sound · Installation
Seismic Shift new media artwork

Seismic Shift

Exhibited in Ostranenie at Aggregate Space in Oakland and at Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe.

New media · Installation
Over and Under augmented reality sculpture

Over and Under

Created for The Real-Fake, an exhibition of augmented-reality site-specific sculptures.

Augmented reality · Sculpture
Night Flight 3D animation still

Night Flight

Exhibited in The Real-Fake, a show proposing 3D computer-generated art as a post-photographic medium.

3D animation · Video
Crocker Mosaic public artwork

Crocker Mosaic — Public Art

Commissioned by the Crocker Art Museum for the opening of its new wing and created from artwork by museum members.

Public art · Animation
Digital drawing from Rachel Clarke ongoing series

Digital Drawings

An ongoing series exploring a transgenic convergence of nature, technology, and the body.

Digital drawing