![Strange Vitality
Installation Shot
2016
Rachel MacFarlane](https://format.creatorcdn.com/e1bf0ecf-f5fd-4779-a040-e6ef436c3dd8/0/0/0/0,0,1088,600,700,600/0-0-0/0c150956-1dcb-44a7-8e9a-89b5b12450a5/1/1/Strange-Vitality---Installation-Shot-2---2016-Rachel-MacFarlane---Cargo_1088.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040697415~hmac=74b6112d24833f6217bff9e9689d0c86b141322e988d146f504040a10d171431)
Strange Vitality
Installation Shot
2016
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Strange Vitality
Installation Shot
2016
![Out of and Into
84 x 72 inches
Oil on Canvas
2016
Rachel MacFarlane](https://format.creatorcdn.com/e1bf0ecf-f5fd-4779-a040-e6ef436c3dd8/0/0/0/0,0,513,600,700,600/0-0-0/5346f343-ff2b-4e43-a1cb-475b07a66a76/1/1/Out-of-and-Into--84-x-72-Inches---Oil-on-Linen---2016---Rachel-MacFarlane-Cargo_513.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040697415~hmac=24c8461c6fa3e996bf03d3be19f4086d12fbb6a8bb67988e2e315a9954252a9b)
Out of and Into
84 x 72 inches
Oil on Canvas
2016
![Underneath and Through
20 x 16 Inches
Oil on Linen
2015
Rachel MacFarlane](https://format.creatorcdn.com/e1bf0ecf-f5fd-4779-a040-e6ef436c3dd8/0/0/0/0,0,478,600,700,600/0-0-0/b60082a3-5e41-4bf7-917e-f777d7c7d6d5/1/1/Rachel-MacFarlane---Underneath-and-Through--20-x-16-Inches---Oil-on-Linen---2016----Cargo_478.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040697415~hmac=1b343bf04b92b705b572d9703e9dcf72c845cca2c03150dcd53a4948e112759f)
Underneath and Through
20 x 16 Inches
Oil on Linen
2015
![Strange Vitality
Installation Shot 2015
Rachel MacFarlane](https://format.creatorcdn.com/e1bf0ecf-f5fd-4779-a040-e6ef436c3dd8/0/0/0/0,0,972,600,700,600/0-0-0/c8fb3142-479e-4247-8c8a-8cb8c46d128e/1/1/Rachel-MacFalrane-Strange-Vitality---Installation-Shot-5---Rachel-MacFarlane---2016-Cargo_972.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040697415~hmac=5336e7d2cd32d6c20d6eaaa332809b734d1af12cb6456a9d7f18ec6f83d4eb98)
Strange Vitality
Installation Shot 2015
![Into the Garden
20 x 16 inches
Oil on Linen
2016
Rachel MacFarlane](https://format.creatorcdn.com/e1bf0ecf-f5fd-4779-a040-e6ef436c3dd8/0/0/0/0,0,490,600,700,600/0-0-0/03c9276f-0858-4b5e-8d74-77465b08c48e/1/1/Into-the-Garden---20-x-16-Inches---Oil-on-Linen---2016-CArgo_490.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040697415~hmac=f7976d66815884dc67813fb5f44f35d26bf1521b2f97adf5ad3f16c5082dbfdf)
Into the Garden
20 x 16 inches
Oil on Linen
2016
![Roped In
40 x 30 Inches
Oil on Linen
2015
Rachel MacFarlane](https://format.creatorcdn.com/e1bf0ecf-f5fd-4779-a040-e6ef436c3dd8/0/0/0/0,0,465,600,700,600/0-0-0/cf3dfed5-64ef-423f-b87a-f93db679b60a/1/1/Roped-In---Oil-on-Linen--40-x-30-inches---2016---Rachel-MacFarlane---Cargo_465.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040697415~hmac=1cc3d917a9cfe25bd469d3c03f19fb4697797ff4009f655ed5192efc1e46ad97)
Roped In
40 x 30 Inches
Oil on Linen
2015
![Overlap and Count Off
72 x 48 Inches
Oil on Linen
2016
Rachel MacFarlane](https://format.creatorcdn.com/e1bf0ecf-f5fd-4779-a040-e6ef436c3dd8/0/0/0/0,0,417,600,700,600/0-0-0/4a248ad0-831e-42e0-9637-ef6e3825a673/1/1/Overlap-and-Count-Off---72-x-48-inches---Oil-on-Linen---2016---Rachel-MacFarlane-Cargo_417.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040697415~hmac=5c8431acdd163f879dcee5615f41d1c8223a7915ab7a6ad8a9fe9d8f624c9d66)
Overlap and Count Off
72 x 48 Inches
Oil on Linen
2016
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Strange Vitality
Installation Shot 2016
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Strange Vitality
This exhibition explores a core and complex relationship in painting between the material versus the virtual.
I wondered, ‘What would a surrogate for a painting be like?’ So I began to make three dimensional low-relief painted collages. This created a type of original, that I could then transcribe from. The painted rendering becomes like a prosthetic painting. The paintings function in a way that fulfills the space of a physical painting but is still not quite right. Something feels off.
The paintings are essentially abstract yet the effect of rendering from a physical mock-up provides an unclear fidelity. This led to creating a more meta-relationship between the painting and its initial referent. The paintings functioned in a closed circuit. While alluding to inviting illusory space it unravels the painting, breaks down the artifice, negates and makes space uninhabitable.
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