Rebecca Davenport graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from the University of North Carolina. She has been painting professionally for the past thirty years. Her paintings are in many private and public collections, including the National Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

"Davenport provides an extended double take beneath the mask of the ordinary. She has assumed a much less comfortable expression at once powerful, unexpected and strange."