Body
Wall Street International
December 8, 2017, 2018
Moving more into the realm of the abstract are the pastel-hued works of Rachel Garrard, using a pigment derived from powdered rock collected by the artist from the remote Andean peaks of South America. After your glow evokes the softness of dawn light, abstracting the complex human anatomy into simplified forms. Reticular compositions are mapped to the dimensions of her body, the compositions reduced to a few coloured planes, the complexity of which lies within the specific meeting of points and the spaces between. The interplay between geometric lines and shapes and the soft, fleshy colours creates a liminal space in which personal experience and ideas of transcendence collide.