The Goldmark Cultural Center’s Norman Brown Gallery is proud to present Hold On: Singularities in Community, a solo exhibition featuring a collection of fiber sculpture works by Rachel Muldez. The exhibition will be on display from 21 May 2021 to 18 June 2021, with an exhibition reception on Saturday, 22 May 2021, from 2pm to 5pm.

This exhibition is a mix of new and old works that share a common explanation of existence. The dualities of nature and humans or community and separation have been that common thread woven through my nature works. What does it look like, feel like, and what will result when humans collide, communities clash, and nature shows no mercy?

The spiral is a symbol often found in land and nature art. I use the spiral as both an expression of human life energy as well as an obvious reference to our own spiral Milky Way galaxy. I can always see a connection between the cosmos and everything we experience, down to the cells that make up our bodies. Humans collide and at times join, other times, they tear each other apart. The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, will we join or be torn apart? What will it look like when communities face the force of gravity together as one planet? How does is feel and what does it look like when we face the gravity of each other?

Rachel Muldez is a Dallas based visual artist interested in the changing perspectives on art. Born in New Mexico, Muldez has a rich heritage of natural or nature based art. She is influenced by the landscape and the color gradation in the soil between Texas and New Mexico. As a small child, Muldez spent hours picking up rocks and seeds to build homes for small creatures or simply make designs on the ground. After over a decade of science and art education Muldez still practices nature walks and deep, childlike, contemplation of the world around her. With a wealth of knowledge and continual study of our world and the cosmos, Muldez now works with nature to accurately reflect her personal aesthetic and naturalist theories.

Muldez, received a Bachelor's degree in Art from Baylor University in 2007; focused her study towards ceramics under the direction of Paul McCoy. In 2009 she received a Masters degree in Humanities, under the direction of Nick DeVries, in ceramics. Continuing a holistic understanding of her craft, Muldez attained a second Master of Arts degree as well as a terminal Master of Fine Arts degree focusing on sculpture from the University of Dallas. Today, the work she creates is informed by the earth and her immediate surroundings, much like she has always done. Her work can be found in national museums, universities in both the United States and the Czech Republic, galleries and interior design shops in the Dallas area. Rachel Muldez maintains a studio practice out of Goldmark Cultural Center in Dallas.