Artist Statement 
Originally from the East Coast, I am a photo-based artist and ceramic sculptor obsessed with the deserts of the Southwest — landscapes layered by deep time and mythology. These arid places were once shallow seas. Seashells surface from dry washes. Barnacles appear in sandstone.

The natural world is my teacher. The oceans, deserts, and skies of Southern California embody profound interdependencies: desert flora that survive by adapting rather than resisting, the atmospheric chemistry between land and sky, the slow calcification of a shell around its own vulnerability.

My photographs and ceramic sculptures explore transience and symbiosis. The two practices feed each other: the camera is a tool of control; the clay teaches me to surrender.

I make this work for those who stand at the edge of something vast and feel both smallness and belonging.

Bio
Rebecca Webb received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in 1990, and pursued graduate studies in painting at New York University's Steinhardt School, as well as photography and museum studies at Harvard University.

Webb is a photographer and ceramic sculptor whose work has been exhibited widely, including the Oceanside Museum of Art, Joseph Bellows Gallery, Griffin Museum of Photography, The San Diego International Airport, Center for Fine Art Photography, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, The Cooper Union, and Thomas Kellner Atelier, among others. Her photographs have appeared in numerous print and online publications.

Her honors include two grants from the William Male Foundation, residencies at the High Desert Test Site in Joshua Tree, CA, and the Millay Artists Colony in Austerlitz, NY, a finalist nomination for the 2019 San Diego Orchid Award for her series Hado, a nomination for the 2017 San Diego Art Prize, and a shortlist for the John Chervinsky Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Her work is held in private and public collections. This summer she is embarking on a three year ceramic sculpture residency at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado.

Webb is also a curator and project manager. She continues provide art consulting services in hospitality and corporate settings.  In 2018, she produced an immersive "24 hour" installation Ama: Into the Deep for Wonderspaces at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego, California, and curated the exhibition San Diego: The Architecture of Four Ecologies at the La Jolla Historical Society in La Jolla, California. ‘Four Ecologies’ was called one of the “most memorable” exhibitions in San Diego by the San Diego Union Tribune “2018 shows us what San Diego's art scene aspires to be.”  In 2014, Webb launched and curated/produced the Filmatic Festival at UCSD to present immersive experiences at the intersection of science, cinema, and technology, which ran annually until 2016.