{"id":31622,"date":"2018-05-17T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=31622"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:24:10","slug":"rachel-sager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/rachel-sager\/","title":{"rendered":"rachel sager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=31623\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31623\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rachelsager.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rachelsager.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rachelsager-135x1024.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Oooh,<\/em> explosions!\u00a0 This is the big, beautiful work of San Francisco based artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelsager.com\/\">Rachel Sager<\/a>.\u00a0What are you looking at? Charcoal and oil on canvas! What is it all about? Well, I&#8217;ll hand this over to Rachel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;My current body of work continues an examination of\u00a0matter in transformation; metamorphosis, one state to another. \u00a0\u00a0I am particularly drawn to how such elemental shifts coincide with the sometimes devastating effects of human beings on the world around them.\u00a0 Here, I portray this transmutation of matter as calculated explosions on aerial landscapes; the ground living, breathing, and dying all at once, in a heavenly haze. Simultaneously, these images of meteoric combustion and uncertainty loosely depict colorful images of global warming as seen on climate change maps, thus liberating the mind from any certain and singular symbolism. Created through a unique process of brushing, rubbing and dusting, my charcoal underpaintings are comprised of the same material they seek to portray, the natural tools of my chosen trade.\u00a0 The charcoal is left in its crude form in order to create an organic, almost visceral surface on which the lush properties of oil paint naturally contrast.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boom, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oooh, explosions!\u00a0 This is the big, beautiful work of San Francisco based artist\u00a0Rachel Sager.\u00a0What are you looking at? Charcoal and oil on canvas! What is it all about? Well, I&#8217;ll hand this over to Rachel: &#8220;My current body of work continues an examination of\u00a0matter in transformation; metamorphosis, one state to another. \u00a0\u00a0I am particularly drawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31625,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622\/revisions\/31625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}