Rachel Renee Stewart
Public Art Portraits
Bike Art!
East Austin Sunset at 15mph - A Human-Powered Painting, Semi-perminent instalation, Co-lab, 613 Allen Street, Austin, TX 78702
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A bicycle is used as a mode of paint aplication. As a result, the road, sidewalk, grass, and gallery floor become the canvas.

bike painting
Inside view of Co-lab Gallery, November 2009.

bike painting
Detail.

bike painting
View of Hidalgo Street from Inside Co-lab, November 2009. Co-lab, November 2009.

bike painting
As time passes, the painting sucumbs to the forces of nature, and traffic, and gradual disapears.

painting with a bicycle
First developed at Whalefall Studios, East 6th Street, Austin, Texas, 78702.

An Impressionistic landscape painted with a bicycle by Rachel Renee Stewart
"East Austin Sun Set at 15mph", House paint on canvas. 16 x 5'.
Duration: 8 hours over the course of two days.

study of the sunset painted from life
Sky Study #4, 12x8", Oil on wood.
The Private collection of John Oldag.