#Rachel MacFarlane

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Rachel MacFarlane

Lava River Rolling, 2024

Oil on canvas

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“After Storm in the Fen”, 2024, Oil on canvas

"Squall Lines", 2024, Oil on canvas

For Rachel MacFarlane’s exhibition, Coming Events Cast Their Light Before Them, at Hollis Taggart, she has painted several dreamlike landscapes based on her travels to places impacted by climate events. She first creates maquettes from her observations (three are on view) and then uses them as the basis for the paintings.

From the press release-

At its core, MacFarlane’s work is about lamenting the loss of specific landscapes through creating and depicting new worlds where humans are no longer the protagonists. MacFarlane spends much of her time immersed in unique geographical environments – often ones that have been heavily impacted by climate change-related weather events. While working on her newest body of work, MacFarlane spent extensive time in places ranging from the Adirondacks to Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Maine, and from Prince Edward Island right after it had been hit by Hurricane Fiona to Clearwater, Manitoba during unprecedented flooding. As has always been her practice, MacFarlane does not document while she travels, instead preferring to absorb the atmosphere of a place and spend time really immersed in its sights and sounds. Upon returning to her studio, MacFarlane transforms her observations into three-dimensional maquettes created out of paper, paint, and plastic.

As MacFarlane describes it, a lot of play takes place at her collage table, as she manufactures new spaces based loosely on the spirit of specific ones, drawing on a myriad of influences from theatre and architecture to the world-building of science fiction literature and movies. The paintings in this show were specifically influenced by MacFarlane’s research into the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a manuscript depicting celestial and weather phenomena made in Augsburg, Germany in the sixteenth century. MacFarlane was moved and inspired by how these anonymous illustrators centuries before her were also dedicated to tracking warning signs in the landscape and to recording them in creative ways.

While she describes the model-building as a distancing method, it is also one that creates intimacy, as the scale shift to a shallow box model leads to the creation of a miniature world we can literally hold in our hands versus the enormity of the environment. After MacFarlane distills the memory of a place into an object, she further transforms it into its final form on the canvas, using bold colors and thick brushwork that highlights the painterliness and artifice of her landscapes. As art critic Barry Schwabsky notes in the catalogue essay, these multiple translations and transformations allow MacFarlane to “operate with and against flatness and depth, illusion and physicality, naturalness and theatricality… Her work gives pleasure but also warns that with all these unavoidable antitheses, the choice of one pole or the other would be hopeless, and we have to learn to live with the tensions between them.”

This exhibition closes 5/25/24.

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Rachel MacFarlane - The Spark under an Andalusian Sun, 2024

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Rachel MacFarlane (Canadian, b. 1986), Sandstone Horizon Junction, 2020. Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 76.2 cm

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Rachel MacFarlane - Umbra Over the Horizon, 2022

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Rachel MacFarlane, Orchestral Skies, oil on canvas on wood (2022)

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Today's eclipse & Canadian artist Rachel MacFarlane

Celebrated artist Rachel MacFarlane’s work is especially relevant today on the day of the solar eclipse. The Event, 2024. Oil on canvas via Smithsonian magazine, a feature on art inspired by eclipses One of the works for her new solo show in New York City is The Event (above), “a fantastical depiction of hurricane-battered Prince Edward Island coupled with an abstract depiction of a solar…

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Summer TCA - July 11, 2024 Hallmark Panel

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Nothing new under the sun? Why originality is always possible

Here’s something to think about. Around 97% of the time you ever spend with your parents will be before you are 18 years old. Maybe you’ve already heard this statistic, and apparently there’s more than one variation. But I heard it just this week. Dave heard it first, told me.   We boggled. Then, after a moment’s marvelling, we thought about it properly. Of course. That period 0-18 is so…

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Rachel MacFarlane - Flood Pour over Red Earth Crags, 2024 - Oil on canvas

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Rachel MacFarlane

Squall Lines, 2024

Oil on canvas

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I often see fans demonize some characters like Belos,The Blights, Camila, into far worse versions of themselves like fans portraying Camila as abusive since she wants Luz go to Reality Check Camp to correct her behavior and certain people interpret that of her sending her to a conversation therapy camp or the Blights while they are bad parents for sure they are sometimes depicted as physically abusive or homophobic despite that sort of thing not existing in the boiling isles and Finally Belos gets made into a bigot who is sexist,racist, homophobic because he a white Christian male despite not making any insults for Luz being a woman or POC while his stance of sexual orientation or gender identity is unknown the fact he didn’t insult Luz for being a woman or POC is remarkable progressive for a Man who is born in the 1600’s also He FICTIONAL and we already have enough of those people in real life what do you think?

I do say this, people need to start separating the art from the artist and fantasy from reality,

this type of writing and fictional perspective, a lot of viewers and fans sit through, its been done throughout animation, Even in real life affecting how we see our adult figures.

hope i say this, the best way i can cause the show did the adults and supporting characters dirty with its ill pacing in storytelling and character exposure

The Fans Of their favorite media love to exaggerate disliked characters (be it villains or unpopular ones) cause of how there perceived physically or in writing in the creator's eyes. We get this at the start of the first episode introducing Camila (whos a great mother who I relate to cause, I also was on the spectrum being raised by a single mom) I feel I look at her as a character who carries a burden with her being a single mother) yet relatable cause she does her best to take care of her daughter on earth cause she to is a single mother protecting her daughter from the harsh reality cause its not all huckydorey (like the ending of the show),when she wants luz to conform. the way fans see luz assomeone needing protecting, might villanize camila firsthand(DEMONIZING ADULT MOMENT BY FANDOM) as a cheerful person luz is, fans forget that she's also impressionable, impulsive, don't think far on consequneces and needy, might gloss over the fact she needs proper mannerisms (to get by in the world at times), cause shes young & fits the viewers mold of perception, that no one should be punished cause of sexuality, it might show she doesn't need help. Let's be clear the fans are gonna gloss the fact shes a troublemaker who brings harmful items to school WHICH fans should be concerned, i mean neurodivergent character doesn't mean good personality,

2. The blight situation I swear they did Odalia dirty with this GRRR & how talented and amazing Rachel MacFarlane is (Her VA voicing hayley from American Dad.) thanks for moring mark giving her proper depth in her character on how odalia acts.

She’s also over exaggerated for being ( DEMONIZED BY FANDOM cause SHE's an ADULT) to being just an abusive mother, but however others will see it is a character who was a dark and humorous character at least & she has great writing tools to be & alador was just a plot device to make amity look good even the twins, & get rid of odalia even though her had his hand in amity's abuse, which I feel no one in the blight fam is not innocent (neither was amity, also which the twins didn't get fleshed out more & used as plot device for lumity, Which fans at times gloss over. Fans will over-exaggerate that Odalia was physically abusive to the kids but NEVER WAS! cause that's a negative perception on the fandom that (We have a adult hater situation nowadays of how this new age of Gen Z & alpha kids are raised,

i also wrote a post on the matter btw

The Belos Treatment (we al know how the creator treated him, such good potential DOwn the Drain.)

Bruh or GiIIIRRRRLL, I commend the Belos fans for being on their own ship supporting and adding more to his BG in fanfic & art

Belos was an intriguing villain who rivaled not only Frollo, the horned king, & Prof. Screweyes. This man also has a perception amongst the fans who followed the creator's way of how he was written (basically the new Chloe bourgeois treatment from miraculous.) He was only a character who was hell-bent on piping witches out and saving his humankind NOT BEING Racist Homophobic, or BIgoted, However, Chloe made racist & prejudiced remarks To Marinette in the cooking episode,(BUT BELOS DIDNT!) So he's an equal villain Who is all about equal rights means equal fights (falls under the neutral evil cause of how he was depicted into a person of tragedy upbringing to now a one-sided character (getting tired of how creators write villains in a one-sided manner.) oh and some people need proper knowledge of the 1600s cause belos was born in that era and I heard someone saying he was born in 1700s which I feel the show does suffer from anachronisms.

And don't get me started of how the fans go about Darius cause that has angry black man written all over it, along Manny being ONLY relevant in Luz's dire moment not being explored more,

hope i put down a lot of tea & crumpets for everyone hope you also can look at my video essay on my YouTube.

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the way rachel smythe draws men looks like she tried to rip off markus pierson in the blandest, most corporate way possible

Seth Macfarlane.

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To keep the optimism flowing, here are some couples between a main character and a recurring one that broke up and then got back together and were endgame:

Phoebe and Mike from Friends

Rachel and Jesse from Glee (this was a particular case because a real death happened, but still)

Kevin and Scotty from Brothers and Sisters (Scotty started as recurring, he was later upped to main)

Drew and Rick from The Night Shift (Luke Macfarlane again, lol)

Carol and Helen from Episodes

Julia and Justin from Party of Five

I'm sure there's plenty more, these are the ones at the top of my head.

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Given the reboot/revival trend, "Jem and the Holograms" deserves to join in (And here's my fancast)

Preferably a full-on reboot rather than a revival; it'd be great to see certain scenes with updated/modern animation--plus there were some storylines/arcs I think could've been done or incorporated better (ie Roxy being illiterate and the Jem/Rio/Jerrica love triangle). Given how much 80s music has influenced modern music, I don't think it'll be hard to find songwriters to do the show justice (maybe if they could get Chappell Roan under contract, that'd be AMAZING). And while I'd LOVE for the OG cast who's still alive to return or have new roles, similar to the cast for X-Men: The Animated Series/X-Men '97, here's a fancast just in case they wanted new faces:

Anna Kendrick as Jerrica/Jem--I swear, I was THIS close to saying Amanda Seyfried, but I find it easier to imagine Anna capturing Jerrica's controlling/condescending side (not a jab), as well as having a good voice I'd enjoy hearing as Jem! Idina Menzel was also a heavy contender in my mind, as was Jennifer Lawrence (at least for speaking roles).

Cristina Vee as Kimber--Perhaps it's the vibes I get between Marinette's hyper attitude and Kimber's bubbly attitude, but I think Cristina is my ideal Kimber voice.

Anika Noni Rose as Shana--I've said it before: Anika is an underrated voice actress! I'd love to hear her as Shana.

Kelly Marie Tran as Aja--Speaking of Disney, Kelly's performance as Raya really makes me feel like she'd be a good fit for Aja.

Xolo Maridueña as Rio--Xolo was one of the first actors I considered, and since I'm assuming Rio is Latino (Is Rio's ancestry ever discussed?), a Latino voice actor thus felt appropriate amongst the other choices. If I wasn't focused on that, Yuri Lowenthal, Christopher Sean, and Mensa Massoud were my backups.

Steve Blum as Eric--Someone I'm very familiar with (mostly as Wolverine in various properties), he was the first voice that came to mind for Eric.

Elizabeth Gillies as Pizzazz--What is there to say? The energy (and the singing voice) is there.

Rachel MacFarlane as Roxy--As an "American Dad" fan, her role as Hayley makes me think she can capture Roxy's attitude (because Hayley has her wild moments).

Cree Summer as Stormer--I kept thinking of someone who I could see having a similar (though not identical, of course) voice to Susan Blu's performance, and eventually I landed on Cree, who's a classic voice actor for a reason!

Halle Berry as Synergy--While I think Halle has a youthful voice that may sound a bit young for Synergy, she as a sincerity to her and wisdom that I find synonymous with Synergy.

Hope you liked the ideas! Who would you cast for an animated reboot of "Jem and the Holograms"?