Rachel Anzalone (she/her) was born in Inwood, NY, and raised in Manahawkin, NJ. She obtained a BFA degree from Stockton University in 2014 and an MFA degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2019. Anzalone’s practice is a visual archive that captures specific relationships to placement, family, and the uncertainty of memory. Through conversation with relatives and translating family books and documents from Italian to English, Anzalone wonders about distance and location based on the belief of what defines home. A repetitive task of layering transparent images through painting, drawing, and collage becomes an act of what she recalled from her past. Those layers are memories that will continue to fade through time. Currently, Rachel Anzalone is the Gallery and Collections Technician at the Cape Breton University Art Gallery. She resides in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
