Rebecca Watson Horn

Rebecca Watson Horn (1981) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Language as it exists in the body, words and letters themselves have been at the center of Rebecca Watson Horn’s painterly investigation for several years. Her paintings begin with a written phrase—an intention or a spell—which becomes physical through the gestural application of paint on a variety of burlap surfaces. Words and phrases are stripped of their initial purpose and abstracted to the pure forms of letters. These autonomous and unruly forms invite the viewer to read them through their own experience.

Rebecca Watson Horn (Boston, MA, 1981) received a BFA from The Cooper Union, an MFA from Rutgers University, and attended The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles. Horn’s solo exhibitions include The Secret Life of Vowels (Emanuela Campoli, Paris, 2024), Sigils (Auroras, São Paulo, 2023), letters as such (Deli, New York, 2023), White Columns (New York, 2017) and Rub It In (Soloway, Brooklyn, 2011). Horn presented works from her Semaphores series in a collaborative project with choreographer Andros Zins-Browne and designer Victoria Bartlett at Canepa Selling (LA). As a member of the collective Canaries, she participated in an exhibition at Cleopatra’s (Brooklyn) and a residency at Recess (NYC). Horn lives and works in Brooklyn.