"Common themes throughout my art include feminism, human carnal comparisons to animals, and interpersonal relationships. I am particularly inspired by Freudian psychology, specifically, the genre of object relations and psychodynamic theory."
Rebecca Boraz is a printmaker and mixed media artist based in Portland, Oregon since 2009. She works predominantly in relief and intaglio printmaking and began working in ceramics in 2022. Boraz was born with a visual impairment where she often sees double. It is through cubism that she abstracts perception and her visualizations turn into imagery and then a cohesive composition. Utilizing a figurative narrative approach, she purposely uses forms, and layers lines and imagery so that the viewer can have a Rorschachian experience with how they uniquely see and connect to the work.
Rebecca Boraz received her BFA in printmaking from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and received her Masters degree in art therapy from New York University. In 2014, she completed residencies at Skopelos Foundation for the Arts and Running with Scissors Studio in 2023. In late 2023, Boraz opened Brave Atlas Printmaking Studio in Portland, Oregon.