Rebecca Leveille Guay is a contemporary artist working in a figurative mode. She is influenced by art historical sources, magical surrealism/ fantasy iconography and contemporary cultural imagery. She was a celebrated figure in comics and fantasy publishing, working closely with the legendary Denis Kitchen as her agent for a number of years, until 2011 at which time she left commercial work to pursue personal and gallery painting. Breaking out of the prescriptive narrative mode, her relationship to language persists yet the narrative potentials in her current work are balanced by her determination to create that which is poetic rather than literal. These personally driven explorations delve into sensuality, the female gaze, media imagery, and Art World social phenomena. She often leans into and appropriates her past identity as a creator OF pop culture as a tool to examine the myth and influence of culture within her current work. *Image credited to Scott Bakal