Rachel Teannalach
EXPANSE
The impression of places felt.
Bozeman, 2021
Teannalach's expansive landscapes breathe in your presence. Much like JMW Turner's light-filled, emotive landscapes pushed the boundaries of an inner, passionate dialogue informing place, Teannalach expresses grand emotions in broad strokes, the parsing of detail and emanating light. Landscapes, much loved and much derided, are having a moment. Our rapidly changing environment is more tenuous than ever.
A landscape, now, feels like a love letter to a relationship already on its way out.Teannalach was married on the Big Lost River in Idaho. A large, almost garishly colorful kaleidoscopic tent landed, moon-scape style, on the arid sagebrush — a beacon for attendees. Sweet pea flowers and a beautiful blue-sky day, with a puff of a cloud to cap off the early evening departure, gave such immense feeling to the landscape. Somehow that feeling, buffeted by intermingling perceptions of place, created a lingering visual — one that invited getting to know Teannalach more… which follows that a Boise-based artist lands in Bozeman.
EXPANSE is the impression of places felt. Teannalach invites you in with tall portals, grand triptychs and widening views into her world. There is a strong pulse in these depictions, an invitation to engage with place in a very personal way. You may even recognize a few.
Painter of light over the West.
Rachel Teannalach is a Boise-based painter of expansive Western landscapes — the Beartooth Plateau, the Camas Prairie, the Owyhee and Big Lost Rivers. Working in broad strokes with a parsing of detail and emanating light, she paints place as it is felt rather than merely seen.
Her formats reach for scale and immersion: tall eight-foot portals, triptychs, and panoramic views that invite the viewer to engage with place in a very personal way.