RACHEL GARRARD
MANIFESTATIONS IN THE LIGHT

Rachel Garrard (b. 1984) lives and works in New York and Mexico. She earned a BFA and MFA at Central Saint Martins, London. Garrard’s multifaceted practice integrates painting, sculpture, sound, installation, and video, articulating a view of reality in which the border between the physical and ephemeral is porous and ever-shifting. Her paintings are composed of natural substances, such as quartz, ash, or rock powder pigment, that she has personally collected, hand-ground, and applied to raw linen canvas through a process of fine layering translucent washes of color. The applied pigment becomes a physical register of place, a palimpsest of...