Rachel MacFarlane

Exhibitions Strange Vitality 2016
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Strange Vitality 
Installation Shot
2016
Rachel MacFarlane

Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot

2016

Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot

2016

Strange Vitality


Solo Exhibition
Mason Gross Art Galleries
33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ

Exhibition Dates
February 2016

Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot 

2016

Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot 

2016

Out of and Into 
84 x 72 inches 
Oil on Canvas 
2016
Rachel MacFarlane

Out of and Into 

84 x 72 inches 

Oil on Canvas 

2016

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

Underneath and Through

20 x 16 Inches 

Oil on Linen

2015

Underneath and Through

20 x 16 Inches 

Oil on Linen

2015

Strange Vitality 
Installation Shot 2015
Rachel MacFarlane

Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot 2015

Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot 2015

Into the Garden 
20 x 16 inches 
Oil on Linen
2016
Rachel MacFarlane

Into the Garden 

20 x 16 inches 

Oil on Linen

2016

Into the Garden 

20 x 16 inches 

Oil on Linen

2016

Roped In 
40 x 30 Inches 
Oil on Linen
2015
Rachel MacFarlane

Roped In 

40 x 30 Inches 

Oil on Linen

2015

Roped In 

40 x 30 Inches 

Oil on Linen

2015

Overlap and Count Off 
72 x 48 Inches 
Oil on Linen 
2016 
Rachel MacFarlane

Overlap and Count Off
72 x 48 Inches
Oil on Linen
2016 


Overlap and Count Off
72 x 48 Inches
Oil on Linen
2016 


Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot 2016

Strange Vitality 

Installation Shot 2016

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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