Soft Pastels on Sandpaper
PAINTING
Barbara Rachko
MY PORTFOLIO
BOLIVIANOS
VIEW PAINTINGSBLACK PAINTINGS
African cultural artifacts
VIEW PAINTINGSThe Black Paintings series of pastel-on-sandpaper paintings grew directly from the earlier Domestic Threats. Both series use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly-charged narratives.
DOMESTIC THREATS
Mexican folk art—masks
VIEW PAINTINGSAll of the pastel paintings use my West Village apartment or a 72-year-old Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. These are places where I live so the realities of my everyday surroundings are an essential part of the work.
MY STUDIO
Take a walk through my process
SEE MY STUDIOPHOTOGRAPHS
PHOTOGRAPHY
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"[Man Ray freed] photography from its documentary function to become an object in its own right; an object that could just as well be used to conjure the world of dream as its more common employment in capturing the world of everyday vision." - Anthony Shelton in Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens
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