Author: Rain Jordan

Photo of Rain Jordan: a pale, blonde white woman is seen in profile against a pastel blue background.

Rain Jordan’s works have been shown in the USA and Australia and are in private collections throughout the world, including New York, California, Oregon, and Australia. Several have also been featured in Saatchi-curated collections at Saatchi Art, as well as on several book covers and in magazines. Most recently, her jellyfish sculptures were featured in a juried exhibition at Cannon Beach Arts Gallery, and in early 2026 a group of her mid-century modern themed dog drawings will also be shown there.

Rain holds a BA and an MFA from the California State University, San Jose. Born and raised in California, she moved from Rio Del Mar (Santa Cruz) to the north Oregon coast in 2015 to open a dog welfare and protection nonprofit.

Camouflage

A painting by Rain Jordan in which a dodo bird stands on a rock wearing a pink fan coral as a hat. In the background is a stormy sea and an approaching sail.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The truth must dazzle gradually.

                       —Emily Dickinson

 

I often work in slant mode. Whether through abstraction, symbolic imagery, or magical realism, I like my work to be open to more than one interpretation. This way, both the subject of the work and the work’s viewer are recognized as the individual beings they are, in flux and replete with potential. I think of art as invitation to the viewer to come to their own meaning while considering the possibilities of the subject’s worldview as well. For me, a slant approach to art opens access to more dialogical forms of communication.