Rachel Eng: From there to here
September 2 - October 12
Rachel Eng: From there to here is on view in the Lower Traylor Gallery from September 2 through October 9, 2026. Rachel Eng will give an artist talk at the exhibition’s opening reception on Wednesday, September 2, at 5:00pm in the Lower Traylor Gallery in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. All are welcome; no RSVP required. For more information, visit our Events page.
In this visiting artist exhibition, Rachel Eng presents photographs, sculptures, and an installation that consider the interconnectedness of human and non-human life, land use, and climate change. Which sites benefit, and which bear the risks from the material exchanges and how does this relate to the ecological crises we are witnessing today?
Rachel Eng is a visual artist working primarily in installation and sculpture whose work draws from the writings of scientists, activists, and creatives like Max Liboiron, Dina Gilo-Whitaker, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lauret Savoy, and Anna Tsing who discuss the interconnectedness of non-human life forms and humans. Eng is interested in the agency of materials and their reciprocal impacts on human behaviors and how this connects to land use/development and climate change. Projects often utilize video mapped projections, clay, and sound. Eng received her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University. Eng has shown her work in solo exhibitions at NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY; 2025), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA; 2023), The Springfield Museum of Art (Springfield, OH; 2023), Jane Hartsook Gallery (NYC, NY; 2022), and Flecker Gallery (Long Island, NY; 2020). She has held residencies at McColl Center (Charlotte, NC), Studio Kura (Fukuoka, Japan), and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, ME), among others. In 2021 she was awarded a Windgate Fellowship through the Center for Emerging Visual Arts in Philadelphia and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work is in various private and public collections including the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art (Republic of Korea) and Peninsula College Ceramics Collection (Port Angeles, WA). She currently lives in Carlisle, PA with her family, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Dickinson College.