Racheal Bruce is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
Racheal Bruce is a St. Louis-born illustrator and educator. She graduated in the first class of MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture at Washington University and is the Assistant Professor in Illustration at Webster University. She’s also a member of Illustrators for Hire.
Racheal specializes in book illustration, editorial illustration, and poster design. Her work has been published in magazines internationally. Her personal work explores performative aspects of gender and sexuality, the history of cursed films, and 19th century optical animation toys.
Winner of the Walt Reed Award for Excellence in Illustration and Writing, included in the Society of Illustrators 65 Annual and two time Best in Show winner. Her project Excorio received a Cube Award from the 101st Annual Art Directors Club Awards.
Clients include The Washington Post, Bastille Magazine, The Centre for International Governance Innovation, The Baffler, VinePair, The Gullet, Brasserie Dunham, Strange Horizons, The Polyester Dollhouse, Aislin Magazine, and Anthology Puzzles.
“Drawing allows us to see, record and interpret the world, but it’s also one of the oldest and most basic tools of human connection: to study another person to such a degree is a practice in empathy”.
This is what Racheal Bruce enjoys about illustration—it is an opportunity to visualize complex ideas or difficult narratives with sensitivity, emotion and complexity. She’s curious about illustration as performance art, and through this curiosity she explores how an audience grapples with their own feelings of superstition.
She plays with believable falsehoods: placing the viewer in a realm where they believe a fiction is real enough that they engage in a communal game of storytelling.
Racheal’s work imbues the feeling that a fantastical unreality could exist in our physical world, with all of the whimsy and eeriness that comes with it.
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