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Rebecca Rebouché is an American painter, writer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur known for her decade-long collaboration with international retailer Anthropologie and her large-scale paintings of allegorical family trees.

Based in her native South Louisiana, Rebouché’s work is fed by the rich artistic history of New Orleans and the myths and mysteries of the city’s surrounding forests and waterways. The symbols that arise—a white summer dress reaching through deep swamp water, a whale pinned in by cypress trunks, ice cream melting on the moon—are our collective symbols. Rebouché unearths them like flames she can see burning beneath the soil. John James Audubon meets Frida Kahlo in a Chagall dreamscape, her work is here to tell the story of us that we didn’t know needed telling.

Lydia Lunch (1980)

Surf. The Mysterious Island. 1924. Endpaper.