Upcoming Exhibit

July 11-August 15, 2025
Rachel Hausmann Schall | Leave All The Doors Open

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. 

“My works are an authentic exploration into the materiality of collage. By embracing experimentation and discovery through abstraction, I see my works as a document or archive of my language as a visual artist and an attempt to make sense of a complex world.”

About the Artist
Rachel Hausmann Schall (she/her) is a born and raised midwestern artist, writer, and educator living and working in central Wisconsin. She received her BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) in 2015 and has exhibited nationally at a variety of museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces across the nation. Solo exhibitions include Twosies (Chamber, Milwaukee, WI, 2016), 12 oz. Lounge (Project 1612, Peoria, IL, 2018)and Affix & Repeat (Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI, 2021). Rachel is co-editor of Artdose Magazine and has contributed writing to publications like Sixty Inches From Center, Dovetail Magazine, and Flat Rate Contemporary. She is co-organizer of the Grilled Cheese Grant, an artist-run project that raises funds for emerging artists in Wisconsin with grilled cheese sandwiches. Rachel Hausmann Schall also works as the Artist Residency & Adult Program Manager at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.