Rachel Vann

Title: The End of Desire
Oil
2’x2’

Studio:
103 Donnybrook Road
Greenville, SC 29609
803-984-4986

Directions:
From North Main Street, turn left on College Street. Bear right at Buncombe Street, turn right onto Rutherford Street, which becomes Poinsett Highway. Continue on Poinsett Highway toward Furman University. At Cherrydale Shopping Center, turn left onto Blue Ridge Drive. Turn left onto Old Buncombe Rd. at the third traffic light.  Turn right onto Donnybrook Ave., which is the second road to the right.  #103 is a grey bungalow about a block and a half down.

Artist Statement: I like to think about my paintings as meta-narratives -- narratives that examine through their construct the image’s shortcomings as the narrator, being both limited and biased. When I devise an image, I layer excerpts from a very personal library of imagery with imagery that, for viewers, is very often emotionally charged. Because my work utilizes juxtaposition, certain dualities are present in my work that create visual tension -- stillness and action, starkness and subtlety, meaning and chaos, and hope and resignation.