Rachel Gregor

Working in traditional mediums such as oil paint, gouache, and chalk pastel, Gregor creates alluring paintings of young women that straddle the line between pastoral realism and contemporary surrealism. Her figures are often caught in a single moment between the mundane and the melodramatic; wide-eyed and wistful, frozen in a state somewhere between boredom and shock.  These subjects can be found  surrounded by mid-century floral patterns and crocheted blankets, suggesting a timeless sense of domesticity. Accompanying her figurative work, landscape scenes and still life compositions explore the extravagant, overly composed, and the quotidian. Images of garden cultivars and native wildflowers are common themes throughout Gregor’s work.