Proof of Concept

Rachel Beach crafts visual homonyms. Like a seasoned traveler whose wanderings can be revealed through careful listening of accent and expression her vocabulary subtly reflects paths of her history as a trained painter, a daughter of cellist and artisan of architectural flourishes.


What the work is, is wood veneered relief sculpture with trompe-l'œil effects. Beach's ambiguous visual utterances rest suspended between two and three dimensions, like words whose meanings are formed by context. These wall sculptures reference both a written and musical language by alluding to letters and notes.
The etymology of Beach's vocabulary is evident in her nod to decorative motifs like palmettes and Fleur-de-lis , and her materials of wood grain and velvety jeweled toned paints. Much like modern languages through appropriation still bare traces of the stories and cultures of earlier civilization



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