Rachel Hausmann Schall’s practice is rooted in abstraction, experimentation, and play. By focusing on the immediacy and accessibility of collage as a medium, Rachel uses mark making, color, and texture to achieve a type of balanced chaos in all-over compositions. 

In Leave All the Doors Open, Rachel invites the viewer to contemplate pieces that live between classification as painting, drawing, sculpture, or collage. This body of work symbolizes the excess and consumption of visual information in a search for sanity and balance. Each work holds a unique history of marks, covered or revealed with each new layer, acting like a record of racing thoughts and emotions. By arranging bits and pieces of found or printed materials in combination with artist-made drawings and prints, Rachel weaves together compositions that celebrate creative freedom and challenges artistic hierarchies. With each piece, Rachel elicits an invitation to draw connections between relationships, memories, and emotions through a marriage of materials. 

When all the doors are left open, anything could wander in.